Bloomberg Reporter Quits Job, Marriage for ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli

What kind of twisted fuck finds Shkreli lovable??

would like to be his prison cell mate and rape him every night til they lower his high price pills

would like to be his prison cell mate and rape him every night til they lower his high price pills

Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore mostly black and gray, and usually skipped makeup. She and her husband, who worked in finance, spent their free time cooking, walking Smythe’s rescue dog, and going on literary pub crawls. “We had the perfect little Brooklyn life,” Smythe says.

Then she chucked it all.

Over the course of nine months, beginning in July 2018, Smythe quit her job, moved out of the apartment, and divorced her husband. What could cause the sensible Smythe to turn her life upside down? She fell in love with a defendant whose case she not only covered, but broke the news of his arrest. It was a scoop that ignited the Internet, because her love interest, now life partner, is not just any defendant, but Martin Shkreli: the so-called “Pharma Bro” and online provocateur, who increased the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent overnight and made headlines for buying a one-off Wu-Tang Clan album for a reported $2 million. Shkreli, convicted of fraud in 2017, is now serving seven years in prison.

He might not be a psychopath but fuck he’s a cringey little dork

The Bloomberg reporter who covered Martin Shkreli quit her job and divorced her husband to pursue a relationship with him while he is in jail. He has refused to speak to or email her since he found out this article was being written.

He is a psychopath.

And so, apparently, is she.

Jennifer Lawrence has her comeback role. Topher Grace as Shkreli?

Imagine a reporter came to you, an editor, and said "I just need to declare something: I fell in love with a source,” then you said, okay, what’s the damage, and she said “it’s Martin Shkreli.” How many times would she have to say it before you stopped laughing and called HR?

He may not be a psychopath, but very much a sociopath.

Ben Collins is nice to look at... Who he?

Well, that's going to work out very well for her...

ahahahahahahahahah

Ben Collins is an NBC reporter.

One of the most insane articles I’ve read in years

She's probably more of an enabler, R7. A psychopath wouldn't let themselves look this stupid in public and be so aggressively out of touch.

Was he allowed to bone her?

I'm guessing psychopathic Pharma Bro has other sidepiece girlfriends who read today's story and are gearing up to go public, too.

Reading this lady's tweets and she is either trolling because she thinks this will make her famous, or she's one dumb motherfucker.

If there was any justice in this world we would find out that she only took up with him so she get close enough to murder him.

Clearly PharmaBro had access to next-gen Viagra!

ROMANCE: One evening when Smythe called him for comment, a tiny shift occurred. Shkreli was looking for a new lawyer and asked her for advice. She felt “flattered,” she says, and offered her opinion. “It really felt like he didn’t have anybody to talk to that he could bounce ideas off of,” Smythe says. “I was like, ‘All right. I guess I can do that.’ ” He sounded “ragged and fragile, and I got concerned he would commit suicide because all this stuff was all happening at once.” Still, her job came first: She pre-wrote an obituary for Shkreli in case he did, in fact, kill himself.

"Smythe pressed Shkreli to let her visit him in jail, and he agreed to a November date. In the visitors’ room, unsure of what Shkreli liked, Smythe spent $30 on vending-machine snacks. When he was brought in, she hugged him, and they sat down to talk, struggling to hear each other over the other visitors. She microwaved a hamburger for him, and they talked about jail. When the hour-long visit ended, she hightailed it to the first counseling session with her husband. He had refused to move the appointment, and she wouldn’t reschedule with Shkreli. She arrived at the hour-long session 52 minutes late."

“That belief in himself, although it may seem delusional at times, it draws you in,” she says. “I don’t know if everything he was saying was true, but maybe like 1 percent is, and that’s awesome on its own.”

Soon after quitting Bloomberg, Smythe visited Shkreli again, fuming about the book industry’s rejection of him—and her. “I was so angry at the establishment, and people who wouldn’t let me tell my story in the book: publishers, Bloomberg, everybody,” she says. Without her job or her marriage “that totally eroded any defenses I had left.” Before, she had tamped down the sparks between her and Shkreli, but now, she gave them air. She thought about when he’d teased her about being a nerd in an old photo he glimpsed, and how she felt when he added her to his visitors’ list (he’s not a big fan of visitors, but wanted her to come). A realization hit her. In the visitors’ room, “I told Martin I loved him,” Smythe says. “And he told me he loved me, too.” She asked if she could kiss him, and he said yes. The room smelled of chicken wings, she remembers.

They couldn’t touch beyond a chaste hug and kiss, per prison rules, and have never slept together, but the relationship moved forward through continued visits, phone calls, and emails. “It’s hard to think of a time when I felt happier,” Smythe says. “At first he’s like, ‘Can I call you my girlfriend?’ ” she says, and “this led very naturally into thinking about a future together.” Soon they were discussing their kids’ names and prenups. After Smythe worried about being too old to have children when Shkreli got out of prison, he suggested she freeze her eggs. She did so last spring. Rita Cushenberry, who befriended Smythe while visiting her own boyfriend in prison, observed Smythe and Shkreli together there. “He has the biggest, warmest smile ever,” she says, and “it was a beautiful thing to see how her eyes would just light up.”

[quote]Before, she had tamped down the sparks between her and Shkreli

Based on the snippets already posted here, that's definitely not true.

Her photos look exactly like I would expect someone of her character would look like. Her ex-husband should get down on his knees and thank the Almighty that he's no longer related to that woman.

DL won't accept the ELLE link but jesus christ, she's nuts.

"When Shkreli found out about this article, though, he stopped communicating with her. He didn’t want her telling her story, she says. Smythe thinks it’s because he’s worried about fallout for her. While she waits to hear from him, she monitors Google Alerts for his name, posts in support groups for loved ones of inmates, and—because inmates must place outgoing calls and can’t accept incoming ones—hopes one day he will call or reply to one of her emails. “It’s completely out of her control,” Haak says; all she can do is “sit around and wait and hope.”

Smythe has only one photo of the two of them, propped next to her bed. Shkreli, his arm around Smythe, has a wide-open smile. “Doesn’t he look human there?” Smythe says, laughing. "

Two mentally ill people, huh? Usually a normal person is stuck with a wacko and the person's life is destroyed. These two are MFEO, hope it works out.

He creeps me out more than Bryan Singer does.

There's that whole phenomenon of women who fall in love with men in prison.

[quote]“Hybristophilia” is a recognized psychiatric condition in which a person—usually a woman—experiences strong sexual desire for a man known for crimes that society considers repulsive. It is also known as “Bonnie & Clyde Syndrome.”

The article at R29 delves into the psychology of women who date imprisoned killers, but Shkreli isn't far behind, in my view.

[quote]Some believe they can change a man as cruel and powerful as a serial killer. Others ‘see’ the little boy that the killer once was and seek to nurture him. A few hoped to share in the media spotlight or get a book or movie deal.

[quote]Then there’s the notion of the “perfect boyfriend.” She knows where he is at all times and she knows he’s thinking about her. While she can claim that someone loves her, she does not have to endure the day-to-day issues involved in most relationships. There’s no laundry to do, no cooking for him, and no accountability to him. She can keep the fantasy charged up for a long time.

This loon needs to be sterilized. She should never be allowed to have children.

Damn, bitches really do be crazy.

the only shock is he's marrying a woman.

Bitch must really be crazy.

Bloomberg News reporter is an awfully prime job to just throw away like that.

It's just one step below the New York Times, Washington Post and TV networks.

Of course he's marrying a woman. Do you think any self-respecting gay man would have anything to do with that?

Someone married Milo, hon.

I think she’s trying for a Piper Chapman-style book deal and sweet sale of the rights to Netflix.

[quote]The room smelled of chicken wings, she remembers

That's all.

From Wikipedia: Shkreli is serving his sentence at FCC Allenwood, and is scheduled for release on September 14, 2023

I wonder if he has asked Trump for a pardon.

Someone married Stephen Miller. I think of the two, Shkreli is more palatable.

What R37 said.

This could conceivably be a career move for her.

Joke's on her if she's trying to get a book/movie deal out of this. Hollywood is obsessed with miniseries and tv movies about terrible people, so if anyone likely gets a deal, it'll be Shkreli.

The ex-husband should get the deal.

R43 somebody find a pic of him. We need to know if he's hot!

I'm curious.

This probably fucks with some deals he's got cooking. No way is he going to let some psycho woman cash in on his story.

Wow that article is amazing.

Stranger Than Fiction Kirsten Bell as the unhinged journo, Jason Bateman as her exasperated, nice guy husband and Bill Hader as Shkreli, the creepy pharma bro.

Captive Hearts

starring AnnE Hathaway as the crazy reporter

Dane DeHaan as Martin Shkreli

Chris Wood as the cuckolded husband

and Linda Hunt as Michael Bloomberg

Coming soon to Lifetime

I see a murder suicide in this lovely couple's future!

Florence Pugh as Christine.

Tim O'Tay as Martin.

Jonah Hill as Ex-Husband.

I must confess that, were I able to overlook the inherent toxicity, Martin is a type that I find cute - I like Eastern European guys and I like nerds. I will say that I think he is genuinely intelligent. I could see someone getting swept up into a fantasy of "fixing him". Although the woman in this essay seems warped herself.

Stephen Miller or Milo, as cited above? Yeah, nah, not so much.

Even I know how to drop them like a SCALDING PAN once my mussy has had enough.

Next season on Love After Lockup...

If you're too crazy for Martin Shkreli, you're in bad shape.

She looks like any actress from a 90s sitcom at R13.

Martin Shkreli is a textbook definition of a sociopath, which is not the same thing as a psychopath. Whenever psychologists and psychiatrists talk about sociopaths being found easily as CEOs of big corporations, they're talking about people like him.

As a side note, roughly speaking sociopathy is nurtured and developed while psychopathy is innate, and sociopaths are still capable of having empathy and even remorse, albeit very little, this is the definition my friend once explained to me to get the hang of it.

R44, that's all I'm curious about. We need to see the ex-husband.

Why is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room. He is rich! Yes, she and her husband may have been fine before. But, they still lived a boring, upper middle class lifestyle complete with rescue dog.

Shkreli is rich. The end.

And I think he is hot.

Jesus fucking christ, R59, so there's clearly no one on the planet you don't think is hot since you have incredibly low standards

Do you think he's hot because he's rich?

Oof. That's a bad nose job.

She reminds me of a thirtysomething Jennifer Saunders in one of the photos posted upthread.

One of my bf's sisters was married to a guy who had been in prison for trying to kill his wife, and so of course he tried to kill her, and in fact left her for dead as he drove to the police station to turn himself in as part of some weird fucked-up plot that I never got the details on. She survived but is disabled. It turned out her husband had been responsible for a series of unsolved rapes over the course of 12 years and he's in prison for life. She went to his trial, defended him, and didn't divorce him for years, not until she learned through an attorney that he had a sidepiece who he was spending conjugal visits with. I keep expecting the story to end up on some true crime show.

His other sister married a guy who was serving life in prison for actually murdering his wife and baby girl. She knew him when they both worked at a Taco Bell in the 1970s when they were teens.

Neither sound like they have “hybristophilia” to me, I'd love to know what is going on with them, beyond general fucked-uped-ness. This lady's clipped replies on Twitter that are clearly meant to sound like she's totally sane and intelligent and everyone else is just wrong (a la Norman Bates's mother at the end of PSYCHO, "they'll see and they'll know" kind of stuff) reminds me of the sisters-in-law. It's terrifying.

Here is the ex-husband. Upgrade or downgrade?

Ex husband is hot! He's better off now.

Marty's grin in OP's snap reminds me of Trump's. No teeth, lower half of the face flattens out and it's totally creepy and infuriating. Are they distantly related?

Downgrade. That's kind of swapping a studly race horse for the world's most hated donkey.

She is insane. I love the detail of her microwaving him a hamburger. You can take a girl out of Missouri ....

R27 " Usually a normal person is stuck with a wacko". Interestingly enough, I have seldom found this to be the case. In my admittedly anecdotal experience, people with serious personality disorders tend to attract like. What I do see is that usually one person is " obviously" crazy or sociopathic while their partners nuttiness tends to be subtle and quieter. But it's there.

She's so....DL!

She left that smoking hot stud for rat faced Pharma Bro?

GTFOOH!

[quote] and Linda Hunt as Michael Bloomberg

LMAO

Shrek-eli is not hot, but the ex husband is trying way too hard with that photo, which, if you stare at long enough, reveals his inner fug.

Sour grapes, Christie @R74, sour grapes.

R66, that's not the ex-husband!

[quote]She's so....DL!

Yup! She saw an AWG with murderous tendencies, lifted her sundress/caftan and went YUM!

I see a sitcom pilot with Amy Ryan and Mikey Day in the making.

Martin S is in prison and has a stalker reporter who publicized their illicit relationship.

Christie fell in love with a convict she was covering for a well-respected news organization, then publicly left her family and career, only to be publicly dumped by a horrible selfish person.

There really is karma.

Does Shrekli have a case of the Elon Musks, where a fuggo rat faced man is given unearned confidence because he has a penis the size of a skyscraper?

You're all missing the best part: Elle magazine broke the story!

I wonder if this lady realizes how pathetic she is

The straight lifestyle doesn’t really work.

r81 -- not only that, it's very well-written! Elle should break all the stories!

She was trying to make money off him by being part of his story, but she cant out-manipulate a sociopath unless she is a sociopath herself. In this case, she is just dumb and trashy.

Yes, and because it's Elle, fashion credits with every photo of her.

I love all the misandrists and simps on Twitter saying that women are only this dumb because of the patriarchy.

I'm not sure why anyone would assume this crazy bitch is representative of women in general. Mr. Shrekli is not exactly a fine example of manhood.

Imagine getting ghosted by a boilerplate press release. What a doormat.

She and her trembling bottom lip are living in a Harlem basement apartment now and takes the 6am bus to the prison. Or used to until he kicked her up to the curb. That was the best story I've read in a long time. THE BEST.

I wonder how long it will take her to see and accept the truth? That he never loved her, only used her, that she fell for one of the oldest acts in the book. How long?

Hold up - the guy in R65's pic - that twitter account is just him singing and he has hashtags of gayguy and gay other things.

Are we sure that's her ex-husband?

That is NOT her ex-husband

She can get a "The wrong man" type movie with Lifetime

He got extra years added to his sentence because of indiscreet comments he made in his emails to her. They were read in court even. She should have seen the writing on the wall at that point.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong, your Love is your Life!

This chick went to my sisters high school. All girls Catholic high school in Kansas City. She is fucking nuts.

Details, R98. Details!

R96 the exhusband is cute. She's a fucking idiot. Enjoy your Harlem basement, lady

People actually fell for R65. I shouldn't be disappointed, but I am

[quote]People actually fell for [R65]. I shouldn't be disappointed, but I am

You are disappointed people don't research links posted to a casual message board? Your life must be full of disappointments.

R102 one glance at the dude's twitter screams Gay louder than Brittany Murphy in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

The ex husband is a cutie. Love bespectacled skinny nerds, and the furry forearms are quite nice.

Dumb bitch.

R104 - wait...which of the two bespectacled skinny nerds are you talking about?

R91 - I think this may be the only thing that will shatter her delusion, especially if there are multiple women and they tell similar stories. She can no longer justifiably tell regard herself as the special one who is able to reach the inner true Martin that he keeps hidden away due to his anxiety issues.

[Quote]I'm guessing psychopathic Pharma Bro has other sidepiece girlfriends who read today's story and are gearing up to go public, too.

It was a painful read, and there are plenty of lonely women who get duped. But part of me wonders how much of her "romantic" relationship was really a figment of her imagination and she wildly misinterpreted things he said, gestures made, or she outright confabulates and believes herself due to a psychotic condition. It's called erotomania.

[Quote]This disorder is most often seen (though not exclusively) in female patients who are shy, dependent and sexually inexperienced. The object of the delusion is typically a male who is unattainable due to high social or financial status, marriage or disinterest.[2][3]

Most punchable face ever.

The female fetish for incarcerated males is a weird one.

R106, that is a good point. This story is beginning to sound a lot like bullshit.

Unless you think Little Marty is going to fall head-over-heels in love with a woman whose communication with him - by her own account - added years to his sentence.

In r60s photo, Shkreli looks like one of those creepy Black-eyed Kids.

According to the article, Shkreli has a lot of "internet friends." I would be interested to hear what they think of this woman and her story.

I'll bite - I know someone who knows (or at least knew) Martin fairly well. No idea if they've been in touch since Martin went to jail. I'll e-mail him about this.

I am beginning to think that this woman has been deluding herself.

My friend described Martin as desperate for any affection but terrified of physical contact.

[Quote] terrified of physical contact.

Was he rape raped?

I don't want to make light of such things, but I received the impression his father was abusive to him and the family at large.

Anger issues and frequent beatings.

R106 here. I forgot to add that the only picture that she has of herself looks like a photo shop job...

Narcissist and co-dependant narcissist?

He went to jail for 6 years for raising the price of his drugs? Then shouldn’t the AMC CEO be in jail too for raising ticket prices yet again?

He went to jail for defrauding investors in his hedge fund.

He went to jail for having a puchable face.

She's got Mr. Molly Schuetz envy.

R108 Christopher Watts anyone? A big DL celeb. Maybe this doesn't happen in reverse as often, but there are men who pine for prisoners too. Either way, it's creepy AF.

[quote]and Linda Hunt as Michael Bloomberg

I can't stop laughing

She loves me!!!

R96 great find. He's ugly just like skreli. Hope she's sterile.

R101 honestly you should give us more credit, I bet most of us were NOT fooled by the 'fake' ex husband. For one thing, that guy was easily an 8 for his age group and that's an unusual partner for a typical person to have. It was good trolling though, added flavor to the thread.

R124 - I really don't find her husband ugly.

Well, he is.

24 hours later, she's still delusional.

UGH! How can anyone possible be attracted to such a nasty sociopathic weenie with such dead eyes?

He wanted to use her as the person he lived with when he thought he would get early release. When that didn't happen he has no more use for her.

She reminds me of a slightly better groomed Lens Dunham

Is She A Trans?

She reminds me of that Samantha Brick woman - the journalist who claimed other women found her too beautiful. She's just peddling a yarn.

I think she looks at him as if he were an unattainable rock star and she is kind of like a groupie who is thrilled when said star picks her out of the crowd and wants her backstage. “This guy/god chose me out of everyone!” He gave her the smallest hint of attention and she ran with it.

It’s a weird thing.

r133

Loneliness is such a sad affair And I can hardly wait to be with you again What to say to make you come again? (Baby) Come back to me again (baby)

Don't you remember, you told me you loved me, baby? You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby I love you, I really do

It's nuts that her friends and family hadn't tried harder to talk some sense into her. They sound supportive now, and they spoke of her as if she had a level head in the article. I wonder if they are trying to save face on her behalf or what. Is everyone around this woman really buying into this? They look like such damn fools. Emperor has no clothes and all that. And the Elle follow-up story -- she's offended by the public reaction, etc. She has really dug in her heels.

Do you get involved in your friends' love lives? I know I sure as shit don't.

The people accusing the woman of inventing the relationship in a state of delusion - even of photoshopping their one picture together - are being a little derpy. There are plenty of witnesses to their relationship, including Shkreli's lawyer.

You've got to love how the liar at r112, who says he knows somebody who knows Shkreli, only came up with his little story, that the woman must have invented their relationship, after the erotomania dummy came up with his silly theory.

The pic at r137 makes me picture Cole Escola as Shkreli.

I completely believe her story. I just can't believe that she believed Shkreli.

She looks ridiculous in that dress and what that look on her face. She would have been better served with casual clothes and hair. Elle knew what they were doing in painting her as awkward and crazy.

The dress she's wearing is called "Confessional" and it's by "Vampire's Wife."

Elle absolutely knew what they were doing.

The Vampire’s Wife is Nick Cave’s wife’s brand. I don’t think it’s any kind of message.

The woman is an idiot, based on the contents of that article, an empty-headed dupe. Shkreli is clearly some kind of sociopath, a grifter by nature, and he'll continue doing that, in whatever way he's still able to, as soon as he's let out of jail.

The dress is fug. It looks like something I'd wear to the office in the 90s if everything else was at the dry cleaner's.

R137, believe me or don't. The erotomania theory clicked with me when I read it and I suspect it's closer to the truth than not.

"He is a psychopath. And so, apparently, is she."

Nah, he's a sociopath. And she's a needy, co-dependent, doormat, weak-minded 'hopeless romantic' with daddy issues.

Opposites attract.

[Quote] The Vampire’s Wife is Nick Cave’s wife’s brand.

Nick Cave will enter rehab soon?

Here's another woman that has been corresponding with him, she is most upset by the dress because she sexually fantasized about him role playing as a vampire.

R148 Relevant Twitter account:

Grifting scumbags.

R149, I don't even understand what that twitter is. Posting their L's? WTF is an L? Losses?

[quote] future endeavors

Well, she's in good company.

Frau here. I happily volunteer to help the ex husband get over it.

I agree r151 I don't know what L's is and didn't want to keep reading to find out

L as in Lose/Loss? When someone fails or makes a fool of themselves, they hold an L.

But the reason I was so confused by that twitter is that some of those tweets didn't read like an "L." That's why I wasn't quite sure if it stood for losses

This chick is a bunny boiler

Martin is going to need to get a restraining order against her when he gets out

The ex-husband really dodged a bullet

From this thread I've been following on Twitter. Plenty of amusing responses.

Why do you think she gave the interview or went public with all this, if it would make Martin mad and now he won't speak to her? (Apparently).

I think he already discarded her and she was doing a last ditch effort to keep it relevant or get his attention.

You know it's a man's world when an ugly fuck in prison is the one to break off a relationship because a woman is actually bragging about being with him.

He looks like Ben Shapiro's long-lost cousin. I'm surprised he's Croatian/Albanian. He looks like he's from the Holy Land.

Christie Smythe recently spoke on the status of her relationship with Martin Shkreli. Right now, it's "complicated" and unknown, since she hasn't been able to neither see nor communicate with him since the beginning of the pandemic. (His email privileges were revoked, presumably due to "his interactions with the public and the press.")

The talk show host did attempt to communicate with Shkreli through his lawyers, but he declined to comment.

She feels that she's matured and strengthened since becoming emotionally involved with him, and although she understands that he might not choose her once he's free, she'd rather hope that he will.

Feds sell Martin Shkreli's Wu-Tang Clan album

Shkreli bought the one of a kind album, he said he didn't plan to listen to it, he just bought it so no one else could.

How are the love birds?

Dumb cunt. From October

I think he's kinda cute.

R164 How long until we hear her say " I was gaslit by a narcissist"?

What a fucking STUPID woman. He's repulsive. She gave up her career for him?

He's a truly disgusting vile human being and he's creepy looking. He looks like an overgrown little boy. He also seems mentally ill.

[quote]Of course he’s marrying a woman. Do you think any self-respecting gay man would have anything to do with that?

Do all the White Party celebrants, naked/leather strap-clad Folsom Street Fair exhibitionists, and thong-clad instagays riding yachts up and down the Mexican coast strike you as particularly self-respecting?

Wow, she really thinks she's fighting for her love, isn't she?

What a loon.

Is he in prison for a few more years? All I can assume is that she’s hoping to get some cash?

I bet my ass she's brainwashed by romance novels.

Lol, watch this:

Not only is this an old thread, but Shkreli never said he was going to marry Christie Smythe, in fact said she was harassing him. She tried to plant stories saying they had gotten back together last year but it didn't take.

No one has thought about this lady in months or longer, why did this get bumped? And how many people on DL didn't realize this was an old story from 2020?

We realise, it's just too brilliant.

Do we know whatever happened to her?

Ha, R172 - I love Elaine Figgis. This is a little off-topic, but here’s my favourite:

R176, Elaine Figgis is one of the finest comedic creations ever. Thank you!

Wasn't this woman accused of harassing people on Reddit?