Martin Shkreli apparently threatens journalist Lauren Duca after Twitter ban

Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive (popularly called "Pharma Bro"), who shot to notoriety in 2015 after his company Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a life-saving drug by over 5,000 percent, has once again managed to hog limelight for harassing journalist Lauren Duca on Twitter. Apparently, he has been threatening her through fake Twitter accounts after being banned from the social media platform.

Duca posted the screenshots of the threatening emails that she has been receiving from fake accounts, apparently. The emails say that she has messed up with the wrong person and she may have to bear the consequences for the same. She has also been threatened of hacking and releasing of her personal information. It isn’t certain as of now if Shkreli is behind these threatening emails. However, speculations suggest that most likely it is him.

The feud between Shkreli and Duca started in December 2016 after the latter wrote an opinionated article titled “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America” for Teen Vogue. This apparently didn’t go down well with Shkreli, who has been a firm supporter of the US-President elect.

Last week, Shkreli (speculated to be the most hated person in the US) direct messaged Duca asking her to become his plus-one to Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Outraged by his move, Duca tweeted the screenshot of the message on Twitter. “I would rather eat my own organs,” she wrote, thereby rejecting his offer. To which, Shkreli replied, “Well, start with your heart. What a cold you know what.”

The tussle did not end there as Shkreli reportedly talked about Duca in a live conversation on Periscope and said that she would “come around eventually” and “get it from behind always.” Furthermore, he changed his profile picture on Twitter to a doctored image that showed him sitting with Duca on a couch.

Upset and angered by this, Duca tweeted the screenshots asking Twitter founder Jack Dorsey as to how this was allowed. Soon after this, Shkreli’s Twitter account followed by 200,000 people was suspended.

“The Twitter Rules prohibit targeted harassment, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies,” a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. “He’s an entitled creep and absolutely deserves to have his account suspended — perhaps indefinitely,” Lauren Duca told BuzzFeed’s David Mack.

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