Martin Shkreli: Celebs Rumors

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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has been released early from prison.McFarland was serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.He spent six months of his sentence alone in solitary confinement after taking part in the recording of a podcast.According to TMZ, McFarland has now been released from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, where he was being held.He is now under the management of Residential Reentry Management New York – the administrative office overseeing halfway houses located in southern New York, eastern New York and New Jersey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.McFarland’s release date from the halfway house is currently set for August 30.Back in 2020, he requested an early release from his six-year prison sentence due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, but his request was turned down.McFarland’s release comes after Martin Shkreli, the disgraced “pharma bro” who famously bought Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for $2million (£1.4m), was also released early from prison. Shkreli was serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of securities fraud following claims he defrauded investors in former hedge funds in 2017.

Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for $2million (£1.4m), has been released early from prison.Shkreli was serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of securities fraud following claims he defrauded investors in former hedge funds in 2017.Upon his incarceration, the US government seized ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ and sold it on to a new buyer last year.But today (May 18) his lawyer Ben Brafman confirmed that Shkreli has been released.“I am pleased to report that Martin Shkreli has been released from Allenwood prison and transferred to a BOP halfway house after completing all programs that allowed for his prison sentence to be shortened,” he said in a statement to The Washington Post. In 2020, Shkreli was denied an early release from prison after he petitioned to be let out so he could continue the “significant research” he’d be conducting into finding a vaccine for coronavirus.But the judge described his attempt at a shortened sentence to be another example of the “delusional self-aggrandising behaviour” that he often exhibits, while also citing the few number of COVID-19 cases at Shkreli’s prison, and his lack of a pre-existing condition that would make him more likely to catch the virus.Earlier this year, he was barred from the drug industry and ordered to return the $64.6million (£47.2million) in profits that he made by price-gouging the drug Daraprim in 2015.Meanwhile, shortly after Shkreli’s incarceration, RZA said he had attempted to reclaim the CD copy of ‘Once Upon A Time…’.Although the album was never released to the public, Shkreli did play clips of it during a live-stream in 2017.

true-crime anthology docuseries, turns its attention to the scandal surrounding Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager convicted of securities fraud in 2017. In ET’s exclusive preview of, the doc breaks down how the iconic rap group got caught up in the attention surrounding the “most hated man in America.” “It got in the hands of Shkreli and that’s when everything just kicked off,” Ghostface Killah says in the clip, referring to the group’s secret seventh studio album,, which was auctioned off to the highest bidder in 2015. It was soon revealed that the winner was Shkreli, who was still CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.

Wu-Tang Clan are facing legal action from Icelene Jones, the widow of Ol' Dirty Bastard and sole executor of his estate, over her claims that she is owed royalties generated by the group. Variety reports that Jones is seeking at least $1 million in damages plus interest and attorneys’ fees.

48 Hours in Vegas,” already has Phil Lord and Chris Miller attached to tell the story of Dennis Rodman’s 48 hours in Las Vegas before Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Ashley Nicole Black and Gabrielle Dennis from “Black Lady Sketch Show” both announced the full list of screenplays this year via the organization’s YouTube channel.

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA says that the group’s single-copy ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ album fell into “the wrong hands” when they sold it to Martin Shkreli in 2015. However, at the time he felt the CD was going to have a “life of its own” and – he reckons – it has done “exactly that”.“The idea was to make something that was unique, that had a value of its own”, he tells Hot 97 in a new interview.

RZA has expressed his regret over selling Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ to controversial ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli.Shkreli bought the only known copy of the NYC hip-hop group’s latest album for $2million (£1.4m) in 2015. Prior to the sale, he was criticised for buying the rights to the life-saving drug Daraprim (primarily used by those diagnosed with AIDS) and significantly increasing the price.He was also a major investor in record label Collect Records, who later severed ties with Shkreli – aka the “most hated man on the Internet”.Shkreli is currently serving a seven-year sentence for defrauding investors in former hedge funds.

Back in July, the US government sold the single physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ album, which it had seized from previous owner Martin Shkreli. And, at that very moment, we all wondered who’d bought it, didn’t we? Even if only briefly.

told The New York Times that it plans to make the album widely available to the public for listening if Wu-Tang’s RZA and producer Cilvaringz give them permission. (The album was sold to Shkreli under the condition that it would not be released for public consumption until the year 2103, 88 years after the initial sale date; these restrictions still stand for now.) The purchase is part of PleasrDAO’s larger objective to collect digital creations from “an exploitative, antiquated economic system,” the Times reported.“This album at its inception was a kind of protest against rent-seeking middlemen, people who are taking a cut away from the artist,” Johnson said.

Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ as an NFT for the equivalent of $4million (£2.89million) in cryptocurrency.PleasrDAO, a cryptocurrency collective led by Jamis Johnson, has purchased the lone copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s album, which was previously owned by former hedge fund manager and convicted felon Martin Shkreli.The US federal government seized the album from Shkreli and sold it to an undisclosed buyer after the ‘Pharma Bro’ was found guilty of fraud in 2017 – two years after he bought the record for $2million (£1.4million).Now, PleasrDAO, which has previously bought digital collectibles connected to Russian dissident punks Pussy Riot and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, owns the copy [per The New York Times].The purchase took

In July, the United States government announced that it had sold Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, to an unknown buyer. The project was initially purchased for $2 million in 2018 by "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli; the album was seized by the government in order to fulfill a $7.4 million penalty against Shkreli after he was convicted of securities fraud in 2018 and sentenced to seven years in prison.

The thought of a deep-dive into the mind of Martin Shkreli—whose adoption of the now (in)famous moniker “Pharma Bro” lends director Brent Hodge his title—is a tough ask for anyone, let alone for a film that works towards competing ends. Trying to both contextualize the rabid media cycle that crucified Shkreli for his main claim to fame—that is, price gouging the antiparasitic drug Daraprim, used mainly for patients with HIV/AIDS—and also psychoanalyze his confrontational personality, Hodge’s film is a curious hybrid.

“Pharma Bro,” available on demand on Oct. 5.“He thinks that it [the goading] is fun,” she adds.Brent Hodge, the film’s director, told The Post that his interest in Shkreli was sparked by damning headlines published in September 2015.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media1091 Pictures has acquired “Pharma Bro,” a look at the rise and fall of Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical tycoon whose price hiking of drugs made him a textbook example of avarice run amok. The film by Brent Hodge links Shkreli’s story to the 21st century prominence of bro culture.

Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album was sold to an anonymous buyer in the U.S. in exchange for imprisoned pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli’s debt.

The one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – previously owned by disgraced hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli and seized three years ago by federal prosecutors – has been sold by the feds to an anonymous bidder for a sum believed to be around $2.2 million.

The US government has sold the single copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ in order to pay off monies owed under a forfeiture money judgment that was entered against its previous owner, Martin Shkreli, following his conviction for fraud in 2017.“Through the diligent and persistent efforts of this office and its law enforcement partners, Shkreli has been held accountable and paid the price for lying and stealing from investors to enrich himself”, said Jacquelyn M Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, yesterday.

Wu-Tang Clan’s 2015 album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’, after seizing it from controversial ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli upon his incarceration in 2018.According to a press release issued by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, the album has been sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price. The sale’s contract reportedly “contains a confidentiality provision that protects information relating to the buyer and price.”Proceeds are being used to settle Shkreli’s $7.4million debt with the US government.

The sordid affair of "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli and the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang album he bought for $2 million has officially concluded. The United States government, which seized the album from Shkreli, has sold it to an unspecified buyer, according to a press release published by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Jennifer Yuma editorWu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album was sold to an anonymous buyer in the U.S. in exchange for imprisoned pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager, Martin Shkreli’s debt.Mark Shkreli, the now disgraced pharmaceutical exec, gained notoriety in 2015 after spiking the price of a drug by 5,000% using his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals.

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Christie Smythe caught the internet’s attention on December 22, when a lengthy profile about her relationship with Martin Shkreli was published by Elle magazine. Smythe, a former court reporter for Bloomberg News, unfolded the whirlwind story about how she fell in love with Shkreli — a former pharmaceutical executive and biotech entrepreneur — while reporting on his case and subsequently breaking the news of his 2015 arrest. Shkreli (the so-called “Pharma Bro,” as Elle states) increased the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent overnight and was convicted of fraud in 2017. He’s now serving seven years in prison.

The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is teaming with Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Netflix to develop and produce a new dramatic feature film which will retell the story of how the Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind 2014 album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” ended up in the hands of the notorious pharma-bro Martin Shkreli. The film will share the same title as the aforementioned album.

Back in 2015 Martin Shkreli was public enemy #1. The big pharma CEO's nefarious influence was felt in everything from his decision to charge $750 per pill for HIV/AIDS drug Daraprim to being revealed as the man who paid $2M for a one-off Wu-Tang Clan album.

Netflix have announced details of newmovie Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which set to tell the true story behind Martin Shkreli‘s controversial purchase of the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s album of the same name.The film is set to be directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo.Shkreli previously made headlines after paying $2 million (£1.5 million) for the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ album, which he was subsequently ordered to give up as part of his fraud conviction.Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is expected to produce alongside Plan B, the production company owned by Brad Pitt, while Ian Edelman wrote the script.The announcement of the project was made in a press release about screenwriter Ian Edelman’s new movie, American Sole

The saga of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ album is set to be told in a new Netflix movie. The project will be helmed by ‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’ director Paul Downs Colaizzo.‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’, of course, was the 2014 Wu-Tang album of which only a single copy was made, sold at auction for a reported $2 million.

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