Martin Shkreli, the ex-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, has been suspended from using Twitter through his account. This Twitter account suspension took place on January 8, after a long period of his targeted harassment against reporter Lauren Duca. Lauren Duca is a freelance reporter.

In an e-mail sent to The Verge, Twitter confirmed this suspension and stated that it was a direct result of the harassment targeted against Duca. However, no further details have been given to this effect. To remind the readers, Duca has caught a lot of public eyes recently after she wrote an essay titled "Trump is Gaslighting America" for the magazine, Teen Vogue.

After the piece became a superhit with the audience and readers, she made an appearance in several interviews and even a face off with Tucker Carlson of Fox News. This particular clip went viral on the internet because Carlson demanded Duca to stop talking about political events and arguments and "stick to thigh-high boots."

Martin Shkreli is a Trump supporter with several statements on record to prove the same. This may be the reason he decided to troll her incessantly. Last Thursday, Duca uploaded a screenshot of a direct message from Shkreli on Twitter. To remind the readers, Shkreli whose shot to game is hiking the price of a drug to unimaginable limits and fighting allegations of fraud. He asked her if she wanted to be his date to Trump's inaugration ceremony.

"I would rather eat my own organs," tweeted Duca in response. After this, Shkreli edited his Twitter bio to add that he had "a small crush on @laurenduca" and even edited a photo of Lauren Duca and her husband to include himself in the frame. He kept on doing other antics such as changing his Twitter banner and tweeting that he had purchased the domain name "marrymelauren.com".

His supporters also left no stone unturned by tweeting more and more photoshopped images. Duca then tweeted screenshots of all these elements to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey following which the final suspension transpired. Duca stated to The Verge:

"Martin Shkreli is engaged in targeted harassment, and absolutely deserves to have his account suspended. It's unfortunate that the only reason people are paying attention is because he's relatively high-profile. Trolling seems to be an automatic occupational hazard for female writers who receive any level of professional attention. That's something Twitter needs to work harder to fix, but obviously the problem runs far deeper."

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