The Wolf of Wall Street

He was earning thousands of dollars per minute by day. He made the most of his nights by using them for drugs, sex, and foreign travel. Here, in his own words, is the tale of the misfortunate genius they called... from the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and racked up a $700,000 hotel bill, to the wife and children waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding.

THE WALL STREET WOLF

Jordan Belfort, the former head of the infamous investment firm Stratton Oakmont, rose to prominence in American finance during the 1990s as a cunning and brilliant stock-chopper who took his merry group out of the Wall Street canyons and into a massive Long Island office. Now, Belfort tells a narrative of excess, power, and greed that no one could have imagined in this amazing and entertaining tell-all autobiography.

Stratton Oakmont, purportedly the model for the movie Boiler Room, made microcap investing a very profitable game as Jordan Belfort's giddy, inebriated traders bullied investors into purchasing stocks that would undoubtedly yield enormous profits—for the house. However, an unquenchable thirst for excess, dubious methods, and a crucial collaboration with a successful shoe designer called Steve Madden would get Belfort into legal trouble and plunge him into a terrifying obscurity of his own.

This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who hustled Italian ices at sixteen and made hundreds of millions of dollars. From the turbulent relationship Belfort had with his model-wife, to running a crazy household with two small 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. Until everything suddenly collapsed...