Michael Douglas reprises the role of Gordon Gekko that won him an Oscar two decades ago in the sequel to the Oliver Stone directed classic, with Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan on board.
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Yachts, planes, women, drugs – stockbroker Jordan Belfort had it all and lost it all. Tom Leonard meets the man who taught the Mafia how to cheat – then wrote a book about it
Could there be a more compelling poster child for the dark side of modern capitalism than Jordan Belfort?
As a 31-year-old multimillionaire stockbroker, Belfort once landed his helicopter on his back lawn, flying with just one eye open because he was so stoned he had double vision. He sank his 167ft motor yacht, complete with seaplane and helicopter, after overruling the captain and taking it into a Mediterranean storm.
He organised a midget-throwing contest to entertain brokers on his trading floor.
And when he wasn’t completely out of his head on drugs, or getting executive relief from prostitutes in the presidential suites of luxury hotels, the man nicknamed the Wolf of Wall Street was presiding over a firm that swindled investors out of $200 million in a shares fraud that landed him and his chief confederates in prison. (more…)