BantamProduct DescriptionNow a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
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By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could on drugs sex and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700000 hotel tab to the wife and kids waiting 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 . . .
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography Belfort narrates a story of greed power and excess that no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room?? Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort??s hyped-up?? coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits?for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery?? questionable tactics?? and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.
From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children?? a full-time staff of twenty-two?? a pair of bodyguards?? and hidden cameras everywhere?even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them?to the unbridled hedonism of his office life?? here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy