Smythe calls Shkreli her “life partner,” while his attorneys referred to her back in April as his fiancée. “This woman gave up so much to be dating Martin Shkreli,” Clifford told The Times, adding that Smythe kept making “little decisions” that led her to this point. Then earlier this year, she said, she learned that Smythe and Shkreli were in “a committed relationship.” Clifford reached out to Smythe, offering to tell her story. Advertisement“It really felt like he didn’t have anybody to talk to that he could bounce ideas off of,” Smythe told Clifford. “Maybe I was being charmed by a master manipulator,” Smythe later told Clifford.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2020 02:09 UTC