Meet the real wolf of wall street in forbes original takedown of jordan belfort.
Real wolf of wall street forbes article.
Over the next few years news of stratton oakmont s success gets around from forbes magazine to the fbi specifically agent patrick denham kyle chandler.
Jordan belfort the wolf of wall street stockbroker whose memoir was turned into a oscar nominated martin scorsese film of the same name sued producers red granite pictures for.
Belfort is initially outraged but mellows after his office is besieged by job applicants.
Despite a lackluster box office most critics seem to agree that the wolf of wall street is a good film and that martin scorsese has outdone himself at least with a crowd pleaser.
In scorsese s film forbes publishes an exposé of stratton oakmont entitled the wolf of wall street.
The movie trailer for the wolf of wall street shows the top sales guy rewarded by getting to throw a midget across the room at a target.
Don t go that far but have some type of monthly payoff.
In both the book and the movie belfort claims that forbes magazine wrote an article wherein he is described as a twisted robin hood who takes from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers and is given the nickname the wolf of wall street although roula khalaf the writer of the infamous article did describe belfort as.
Belfort is a notorious public figure who wrote two memoirs.
Jordan belfort is a former wall street trader who was guilty of crimes related to stock market manipulation.
The first the wolf of wall.