Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical CEO and owner of unreleased albums of several American music icons, leaked Wu-Tang Clan's only available copy of "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" in celebration for the upset win of Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States of America.
Last October, Shkreli said on his Twitter account that he will give out his unreleased collection of albums by Nirvana, Beatles, 2Pac, Radiohead, Jimmy Hendrix and the Ramones should Trump win.
He started it out by streaming the $2 million album of the rap collective Wu-Tang Clan on Wednesday morning right after Trump's victory became apparent. Shkreli told radio show "The Breakfast Club," that he bought the album to show off like what other rich men do but pulled himself back by saying that he wanted "to show respect for art."
Shkreli has been tagged as the "most hated man in America" when his Turing Pharmaceuticals, which obtained the license for antiparasitic and AIDS drug Daraprim for $55 million, raised the drug's price from $13.5 to $750 per tablet. He once told that he would lower the price of Daraprim but Turing Pharmaceuticals still has not lowered the price of the drug.
Ironically, Trump blasted Shkreli September last year for the drastic price hike of the AIDS drug. Trump, according to the Hollywood Reporter, said that the former pharmaceutical boss was a "nothing," "spoiled brat" and a "disgrace." Despite Trump's comments, the so-called "Pharma Bro" said on his Twitter account last May that he endorses the Republican against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The 33-year-old hedge fund manager who then became a pharmaceutical boss was arrested in December last year for fraud charges but bailed himself with a $5 million bond. Investors claimed that Shkreli distributed stocks of his former founded company Retrophin without the knowledge and consent of shareholders, Bloomberg reported.
Shkreli denied the allegation and said on his Twitter account that the story reported by Bloomberg News was "misleading and confused on an old situation that is no longer relevant." Aside from buying the overpriced Wu-Tang Clan album, Shkreli has been regularly notorious for his antics as he once offered a chance for somebody to punch him in the face for charity.