![]() ![]() “Good,” snapped my boss, and he kept right on walking. You’re lower than pond scum, ” said my new boss, leading me through the boardroom of LF Rothschild for the first time. In some instances, I rearranged and/or compressed events and time periods in service of the narrative, and I recreated dialogue to match my best recollection of those exchanges. Where indicated, the names and identifying characteristics of certain people mentioned in the book have been changed in order to protect their privacy. This book is a work of memoir it is a true story based on my best recollections of various events in my life. To my two wonderful children, Chandler and Carter Belfort ![]() Until it all came crashing down…ĬHAPTER 22 LUNCHTIME IN THE ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSEĬHAPTER 36 JAILS, INSTITUTIONS, AND DEATHĬHAPTER 39 SIX WAYS TO KILL AN INTERVENTIONIST 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 who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. 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. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess 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. 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…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. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. ![]()
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