The Wolf of Wall Street

I read this book when it first came out. It was a wildly entertaining, great read. It has recently been made into a movie and it will be released to theaters soon. Starring the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Johah Hill with Martin Scorsese directing, I am going to assume that the movie will be even better.

In The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio would play Jordan Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.

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, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab. 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. The unbridled hedonism of his office life, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding. Even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—it is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions.

Until it all came crashing down…

FUNFACT: Some of the movie was filmed right here on Long Island in Brookville, NY as well as many places in New York City