Martin Shkreli Copied One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album, Lawsuit Claims

Martin Shkreli Copied One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album, Lawsuit Claims
Martin Shkreli, former Chief Executive Officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, exits federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on May 3, 2016. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
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NEW YORK—Martin Shkreli has been sued in New York by a digital art collective that said it paid $4.75 million for a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, only to learn that the convicted pharmaceutical executive made copies and is releasing the music to the public.

Mr. Shkreli paid $2 million in 2015 for “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” and gave it up to partially satisfy a $7.4 million forfeiture order after his 2017 conviction for defrauding hedge fund investors and scheming to defraud investors in a drugmaker.