Book description
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 sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet,
and ran up a 0,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him
for 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 no
one could invent--the story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling
Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all
came crashing down. Jordan Belfort was born in Queens, New York. He
hustled ices to put himself through college showing early
entrepreneurial flair. His first business sent him bankrupt at 24 so he
went down to Wall St with 0 in his pocket and ended up building one of
the largest brokerages in America - the now infamous Stratton Oakmont. A
hard partying lifestyle ended in crash and burn. Ultimately indicted by
the federal government, Belfort served twenty-two months in prison, and
time in rehab. He's now a highly successful motivational speaker. His
story is being made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed
by martin Scorsese. He is currently living in Los Angeles.
