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Chapter 13, Part 5: Michael Bloomberg (audio version)
Listen now (12 min) | Despite his praise of Trump, Martin Shkreli didn’t vote for the real estate mogul in the 2016 presidential election. But in 2020…
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 13, Part 5: Michael Bloomberg
Despite his praise of Trump, Martin Shkreli didn’t vote for the real estate mogul in the 2016 presidential election. But in 2020, he might have voted…
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 13, Part 4: Columbus & Picasso
Famous men were usually jerks, but did they have to be? That was a complicated conversation to have with Martin Shkreli.
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 13, Part 3: All the Problematic Men
Listen now (11 min) | By virtue of timing, Martin Shkreli got lumped into #MeToo. But did he deserve to be?
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 13, Part 2: Family Matters
Chapter 13, Part 2: Through Martin Shkreli, I met a wide spectrum of the federal prison population, including mobsters, gangsters, and fraudsters…and…
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 13, Part 1: Almost Fiancée
Listen now (13 min) | I was never really Martin's "fiancée," but when he started calling me that for various reasons, word got to the press — and his…
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Christie Smythe
Chapter 12, Part 4: Martin and Jack
Listen now (12 min) | When I said goodbye to my dog, Jack, my companion for 16 years, I realized how important of a character he was in all of my…
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Christie Smythe
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