

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET In the 1990s Jordan Belfort 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. 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. he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel.
