New reporting from Wired details the explosively acrimonious fallout of a deal gone horribly wrong, between a San Francisco venture capitalist and a single mother she engaged to be a pregnancy surrogate.

The story, which has gone viral on social media, centers on an ambitious and exacting venture capitalist, Cindy Bi, and a woman referred to in the story as Rebecca Smith, a pseudonym to protect her privacy, who agreed to be a surrogate for Bi and her husband.

While the two women initially had a warm relationship, it gradually turned tense, then detonated when Smith experienced a miscarriage. Bi sued Smith, accusing her of killing the child, and engaged in other aggressive behaviors that Bi described to Wired as attempts to achieve justice for the deceased infant, called Leon.

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