From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprioīy day he made thousands of dollars a minute. “Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment. Belfort has the Midas touch.” - The Sunday Times (London) “A cross between Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese’s GoodFellas. proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives.” - Forbes “A rollicking tale of rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont. “Raw and frequently hilarious.” - The New York Times It’s an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions-until it all came crashing down.
In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort’s own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. By night he spent it as fast as he could.
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