He earned hundreds of dollars per minute during the day. He squandered money as quickly as he could in the evening. Here, in Jordan Belfort’s own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street, from the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and racked up a $700,000 hotel bill to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who dubbed him “king.” Belfort, a smart, deceitful stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a big office on Long Island, became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance throughout the 1990s. No one could have predicted this incredible tale of greed, power, and excess.
