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'Pharma Bro,' Rapper Battle Over Rare Album
The Wall Street Journal
|February 06, 2026
More than a decade ago, pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli paid $2 million for the only copy of a mysterious Wu-Tang Clan album, which he surrendered to the federal government after his 2017 securities-fraud conviction.
Now, Shkreli, widely criticized as “pharma bro” for raising the price of a lifesaving AIDS drug, is claiming he still has copyright ownership in the album and that Wu-Tang Clan founding member RZA and producer Tarik Azzougarh wrongfully interfered
This story is from the February 06, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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