Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio ‎"‎NEW YORK TIMES‎"‎BESTSELLER By day he made thousands of dollars a minute‎.‎ By night he spent it as fast as he could‎,‎ on drugs‎,‎ sex‎,‎ and international globe‎-trotting‎.‎ From the binge that sank a 170‎-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700‎,‎000 hotel tab‎,‎ to the wife and kids waiting 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 ‎.‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ THE WOLF OF WALL STREET In the 1990s Jordan Belfort‎,‎ former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont‎,‎ 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.‎ Now‎,‎ in this astounding and hilarious tell‎-all autobiography‎,‎ Belfort narrates a story of greed‎,‎ power‎,‎ and excess that no one could invent‎.‎ Reputedly the prototype for the film ‎"‎Boiler Room‎,‎ ‎"‎ Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort s hyped‎-up‎,‎ coked‎-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits for the house‎.‎ But an insatiable appetite for debauchery‎,‎ questionable tactics‎,‎ and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own‎.‎ From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model‎-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young 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,‎ here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions‎.‎ Until it all came crashing down ‎.‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ Praise for ‎"‎The Wolf of Wall Street‎"‎ Raw and frequently hilarious‎.‎ ‎"‎The New York Times‎"‎ A rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfort s] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont ‎.‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives‎.‎ ‎"‎Forbes‎"‎ A cross between Tom Wolfe s ‎"‎The Bonfire of the Vanities ‎"‎and Scorsese s ‎"‎GoodFellas ‎.‎‎"‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ Belfort has the Midas touch‎.‎ ‎"‎The Sunday Times ‎"‎‎(‎London‎)‎ Entertaining as pulp fiction‎,‎ real as a federal indictment ‎.‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ a hell of a read‎.‎ ‎"‎Kirkus Reviews‎"‎ ‎"‎From the Hardcover edition‎.‎‎"‎‎"‎