Christie Smythe, the 39-year-old ex-journalist who was dumped by convicted “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli from prison, are still friends and she’s hoping …
Christie Smythe, the 39-year-old ex-journalist who was dumped by convicted “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli from prison, are still friends and she’s hoping to see him now that he’s gotten an early release into an NYC halfway house, she told The Post.
“I spoke to him a few days ago,” Smythe said Wednesday just hours after Shkreli’s release from Allenwood state prison. “I hope to see him and give him a hug. I’ll always have feelings for him.”
The two were once so close that she had her eggs frozen with money Shkreli gave her and they spoke about having children together. But Smythe was reviled online after Elle magazine ran a story in late 2020 about how she “upended” her life — leaving her husband and her reporting job at Bloomberg News — for “one of the most hated men in the world.”
Smythe met Shkreli after she was assigned to cover him for Bloomberg News in 2015. She eventually broke the news of his arrest for securities fraud, and in 2017, Shkreli, now 39, was convicted of defrauding investors in a series of his hedge funds. By then, he was already a renowned and hated figure for jacking up the price of anti-parasitic drug Daraprim as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015.
