Shortly after leaving federal prison, Martin Shkreli took to Facebook, posting a selfie and writing, “Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison.”
Martin Shkreli reportedly purchased the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” in 2015 for $2 million, but the album was later seized by the government as part of his sentence for defrauding investors.
At first, former Bloomberg News journalist Christie Smythe's relationship to Martin Shkreli was strictly professional, but as their bonds deepened, she cast aside her job, husband and apartment.
After buying the drug Daraprim and raising the price by 5,000 percent, Martin Shkreli attracted nationwide fury — and he seemingly loved the attention.
Martin Shkreli, who became infamous after hiking the cost of a vital HIV drug by 5,000%, says he'll confine himself to his fianceé's Manhattan apartment while he works to aid the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Martin Shkreli, the widely despised pharmaceutical executive who once gouged the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, was sentenced to 7 years for fraud.