If you need any proof that no one writes a better script than God, look no further than what Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time in Shaolin has gone through over the last six years. This week, Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced in a statement that the U.S. government had successfully sold Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin to fulfill the debt owed by imprisoned hedge fund manager oft-known as "Pharmabro," Martin Shkreli.
Everyone reading this probably have thousands of questions. Who purchased it? How much was it sold for? Did government agents bump the Wu-Tang Clan album before turning it over to its new owner? Unfortunately, those questions are left unanswered for now as terms of the sale stipulated the buyer nor the price of the purchase could be publicly disclosed. However, court documents from April showed federal prosecutors stating that Shkreli still owed the government $2.2 million of the $7.36 million he was ordered to pay as part of his conviction for committing fraud. Speaking with The New York Times, Shkreli’s lawyer, Brianne E. Murphy, suggested the album sold for at least $2.2 million.
