Martin Shkreli is selling his Wu-Tang album, possibly so that he can buy Hillary Clinton's hair
The supervillaining of Martin Shkreli took another step toward elaborate underground bases and plots to kill Superman this week, with MarketWatch reporting that the recently convicted “pharma bro”/would-be Voldemort has placed his one-of-a-kind copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin on eBay, possibly as part of an elaborate plot to buy Hillary Clinton’s hair. We’re aware that that’s a very weird sentence, but it’s pretty on-brand for Shkreli, a guy who’s reached the point where he’ll do essentially anything to stay in the public eye.
Shkreli—who was convicted last month on one charge of fraud, and several unofficial counts of “looking like a snake” and “disrespecting the Wu-Tang Clan”—put the album up for auction last night, claiming that he’d donate half of the proceeds to “medical research.” (He paid $2 million for the only copy of Shaolin back in 2015.) But when a reporter called him to confirm what that vague phrasing actually meant, Shkreli reportedly “unleashed a string of expletives and then requested to engage in a lewd act with a reporter,” so it’s not clear if “medical research” means donations to his own companies, or actual charity, or an attempt to clone Hillary Clinton from her hair.