Martin Shkreli had a net worth of over $45 billion in January 2016.
Shkreli won an auction for the Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin after the single copy of the album was sold via Paddle8 on November 24, 2015, for US$2 million
 In July 2017, at Shkreli's criminal trial, Stephen Aselage, who was hired by Shkreli in October 2012, testified "He's a brilliant intellect, visionary

