The investment firm Jordan Belfort helmed in the 1990s boasted hookers in the basement, little-person tossing on Fridays, and drugs all the time, says New York Magazine.
Belfort lived an outsized life on other people’s money, and in 1998 was arrested for securities fraud, taking investors for $110 million. He spent time in prison and must now pay restitution to his victims. While he was there, he wrote a book, The Wolf of Wall Street. Now Leonardo DiCaprio will be playing him in a movie, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Read New York Magazine’s profile of Belfort here.
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