Jordan belfort the wolf of wall street
He used his first Wall Street million to buy a white Ferrari because Don Johnson had one. (Separately, DiCaprio can also be seen in a video testimonial for Belfort’s motivational speaking services on Belfort’s website. The real Jordan Belfort, aka the Wolf of Wall Street. Tangent: Leonardo DiCaprio had to relinquish expensive gifts given to him by Jho Low, one of the people implicated in the 1MDB scandal, as part of the U.S. The DOJ said that in addition to The Wolf Of Wall Street, the films Daddy’s Home and Dumb And Dumber To were financed with funds taken from 1MDB. Red Granite paid $60 million to the Department of Justice in 2018 as civil forfeiture connected to the 1MDB scandal. The film grossed nearly $400 million globally (and set a Guinness World Record for most instances of swearing in a motion picture). That period of Belfort’s life-based on his 2007 memoir-is documented in The Wolf Of Wall Street film, in which Leonardo DiCaprio earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Belfort. Key background: Belfort gained notoriety after he was charged in the 90’s with bilking investors out of $200 million tied to stock manipulation, eventually spending 22 months in prison. That’s how much money disappeared from the 1MDB fund, which was controlled by Aziz’s stepfather-the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.
Belfort is seeking $300 million in damages and to have his deal with Red Granite voided.īig number: $4.5 billion.Belfort’s lawsuit is “nothing more than a desperate and supremely ironic attempt to get out from under an agreement that for the first time in his life made him rich and famous through lawful and legitimate means,” Matthew Schwartz, an attorney from the famed Boies Schiller Flexner firm representing Red Granite, told the BBC in a statement:.According to the BBC, Belfort alleges that Aziz hid “these criminal acts and funding sources from him,” which “blindsided” him, and that he never would have sold his rights to Red Granite if he had known.