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TexasTowelie

(112,685 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 07:15 AM Sep 2017

Pharma Bro selling his $2M Wu Tang Clan album on eBay

Just a month after being convicted of securities fraud, notorious pharma-bro Martin Shkreli is selling off his one-of-kind Wu Tang Clan album, which he bought from the legendary Staten Island hip hop group two years ago for $2 million.

The embattled former drug-company exec listed the sole copy of the CD “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” on eBay Tuesday night for a starting price of $1. Within an hour, the bidding hit $55,000 and 100 offers.

Shkreli — notorious for jacking up the price of a life-saving drug for AIDS patients by 5,000 percent — claimed he would give half the proceeds from the auction to “medical research.”

“I am not selling to raise cash–my companies and I have record amounts of cash on hand. I hope someone with a bigger heart for music can be found for this one-of-a-kind piece and makes it available for the world to hear,” Shkreli posted along with the auction listing.

Reached by phone Tuesday night, Shkreli refused to say where he would donate the money or what he would do with the remaining cash. Instead he unleashed a string of expletives and then requested to engage in a lewd act with a reporter.

Read more: http://pagesix.com/2017/09/06/pharma-bro-selling-his-2m-wu-tang-clan-album-on-ebay/

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Pharma Bro selling his $2M Wu Tang Clan album on eBay (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP
he unleashed a string of expletives and then requested to engage in a lewd act with a reporter Not Ruth Sep 2017 #1
"I am not selling to raise cash-my companies and I have record amounts of cash on hand." tanyev Sep 2017 #2
Yeah shenmue Sep 2017 #3
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
1. he unleashed a string of expletives and then requested to engage in a lewd act with a reporter
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 07:23 AM
Sep 2017

Looks like Steve Urkel, rolls like Suge Knight

tanyev

(42,673 posts)
2. "I am not selling to raise cash-my companies and I have record amounts of cash on hand."
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:08 AM
Sep 2017

I have a dream that he and Trump end up in the same jail cell and have no one else to talk to except each other.

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