Christie Smythe went from a happily married journalist living in Brooklyn to a jobless divorcee living in a basement in Harlem. She risked it all in the name of love. Love for whom? For one of the most hated people in all of America – Martin Shkreli. She claims that falling for him was like “slowly boiling yourself to death in a bathtub.”
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Martin Shkreli has been called a sociopath, a narcissist, a pig, and basically everything that’s wrong with capitalism. But when Smythe began covering his case for Bloomberg, she didn’t see any of that. What she saw was a vulnerable man who acted out of fear and anxiety. Their journalist \ source relationship slowly developed into a twisted love affair, which didn’t turn out so well. Let’s see how it all began.