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‘Pharma Bro’ talked about sex with men to get my money, investor says Martin Shkreli​ tried to lead on a gay finance bigwig he wanted to invest in his hedge fund — talking about hooking up with men and saying other things “of a gay nature”​ — the investor testified Tuesday.​

​Steven Richardson described how, as their friendship progressed, there was one “sticky” contention:​ The 63-year-old consultant felt Shkreli mused about having sex with men to ​get closer to him.

The former American Express ​human resources v​ice ​p​resident, who poured $400,000 into Shkreli’s MSMB Capital hedge fund in 2009 and 2010, told jurors Shkreli “was starting to say certain things of a gay nature that started ​to worry me a bit.”

“I thought maybe he was saying things to me because he thought I would want to hear them,” the happily partnered investor told ​jurors in Brooklyn federal court.

“He was saying things to me, like, ‘Maybe I’ll have sex with a guy in the office,’ or we’d be at a restaurant and there’d be a waiter and he’d say​,​ ‘Maybe I should hook up with him.'”

Richardson said he got so sick of hearing the comments, he led Shkreli into his own bedroom, sat him on the bed and asked if he was attracted to him.

“I walked him into the bedroom and I sat him onto the bed with me,” following cocktails in his Chelsea apartment in March 2010, the consultant told jurors.

“Here you are in a gay man’s bedroom,” he told Shkreli. “Do you have any physical feelings for me?”

“He took a second and said, ‘No, I like you a lot but I don’t,'” ​Richardson testified, ​saying that he responded ​with, “Good, that​’​s what I expected to hear and wanted​​ to hear.”

Richardson said the now-34-year-old then started making comments about women, and he even acted as Shkreli’s “wingman” on a couple of occasions.

“I was very pleased about whether we removed any doubt of a platonic relationship,” he added.

Prosecutors allege Shkreli rolled investors’ money from MSMB Capital into his startup pharma company Retrophin — then used unauthorized Retrophin funds to pay back lenders after he lost all their capital.

In his openings, defense attorney Ben Brafman painted Retrophin board members — one of whom Richardson would later become — as buttoned-up high-rollers who refused to accept his client as an “odd duck” and questioned his sexuality.

Richardson and Shkreli met at a cocktail party in 2012, during which the duo engaged in a flirtatious exchange and and the advisor recalled telling the loudmouth “you’re quite cocky, aren’t you?”

Jurors also heard an intimate email exchange between Richardson and Shkreli, in which the enthusiastic backer agrees to inject another $10,000 into Retrophin.

“Love it, and you,” he wrote Shkreli, ​saying he tends “to be very familiar with friends,” and saying he liked to give a “personal thrust” to his emails.

Shkreli responds​,​ “Love you,” before launching into a discussion about wiring over the funds.