More Problems for Martin Shkreli as Artist Sues Over $2 Million Wu-Tang Clan Album

Martin Shkreli, charged with securities fraud and brought before the “imbeciles” of Congress for jacking up the price of life-saving drugs, now has another, if much smaller, problem on his hands.

The former drug company executive’s one-of-a-kind, $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album includes nine portraits of the rap group’s founding members used without permission, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The artist, Jason Koza, has sued Shkreli, record producers Robert “RZA” Diggs and Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh, and Paddle8, the online auction startup hired to sell the album.

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