Wu-Tang Clan Won’t Be Stealing $2 Million Album Back From Pharma Boss

Wu-Tang Clan nor Bill Murray will be stealing back the group's $2 million album from a pharma boss.

After news broke earlier this week that of all the people to buy the one-of-one Wu-Tang Clan LP it was pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli, the very same man who raised the price of an AIDS treatment drug by 5,000 percent, another shocking story followed.

While some were in shock that the Wu would allow Shkreli to be the purchaser, a caveat emerged that said that the album could be stolen back from the purchaser so long as the heist was conducted by one of the active Wu-Tang Clan members and/or actor and comedian Bill Murray. Despite the bizarre nature of such a detail, outlets ran with the story, which was seemingly sourced back to one tweet (below).

Now, Newsweek is calling BS, citing a number of facts including the lack of a primary source. The above tweet offers no quoted evidence of the "heist" provision, and as Consequence of Sound points out, "no legally-binding contract can give you permission to break the law." As the above stipulation details, the alleged heist would be met with "no legal repercussions."

According to RZA, the agreement with Skhreli was reached before his he had taken on the role of pharmaceutical villain. "The sale of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was agreed upon in May, well before Martin Skhreli’s [sic] business practices came to light," he told Bloomberg. "We decided to give a significant portion of the proceeds to charity.”

In that same Bloomberg article, Skhreli voiced some concern that Wu would back out of the deal. “I was a little worried that they were going to walk out of the deal. But by then we’d closed. The whole kind of thing since then has been just kind of ‘Well, do we want to announce it’s him? Do we not want to announce it’s him?’ I think they were trying to cover their butts a little bit.”

It seems the heist to reclaim the album back from Skhreli was too good to be true, though a Wu and Bill Murray kung-fu flick where they pull off such a stunt couldn't possibly fail.

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