Interesting Facts about Real Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort

If you’ve seen the movie The Wolf of Wall Street you’ll now it was an “extreme” portrayal of the real life of one Jordan Belfort, the man Leonardo DiCaprio’s character is based off of.   But what’s crazy about the film and the comparison to Jordan’s real life is that they aren’t as different as you’d expect.  In fact there are many things that happened in the film that happened to Jordan in real life.  If you’ve ever read the book authored by Belfort himself, you can probably recall the amount of times you said to yourself, “no way.”

Most people don’t live a life or do what Jordan did in an entire lifetime let alone the small period in which Jordan did.   What he did was wrong.  Let’s be clear about that.  However, that’s not to say his life wasn’t or isn’t interesting.

Here’s a collection of some interesting facts about the man who The Wolf of Wall Street is based on, Jordan Belfort.

1. Belfort was earning $50 million a year, once reportedly making $12 million in three minutes.

2. He once generated a $700,000 hotel bill.

3. One office junior agreed to have her hair shaved off on the trading floor in return for $5,000 for a breast job.

4. Belfort's drug of choice was Quaaludes.

5. He confessed to making love to his wife on $3 million in $10,000 stacks of notes

6. He once landed his helicopter on his back lawn, flying with just one eye open because he was so stoned he had double vision.

7. He sank his 167ft motor yacht, complete with seaplane and helicopter, after overruling the captain and taking it into a Mediterranean storm.

8. Inside his Manhattan office, Belfort and his co-workers took turns tossing midgets at a bulls-eye.

9. He used his wife’s sweet old aunt as a mule, helping him smuggle money out of the US.

10. He used his first Wall Street Bonus to buy a white Ferrari because Don Johnson had one.

11. He woke up his secretary at 4 am because he was in London and ran out of drugs. An emergency supply was immediately sent out on Concorde.

12. He kicked his wife down a set of stairs in front of their young daughter, and then drove his car through his garage door with the little girl unbuckled in the front seat.

13. He claims to have ingested enough drugs to “sedate Guatemala.”

14. While facing up to three decades in prison, he snitched — becoming a government witness supplying information against his co-workers.

15. He helped take Steve Madden, one of today’s most iconic fashion companies, public.

16. He woke up from a drug-filled bender with the police at his door — they arrested him for causing seven different accidents that he had no recollection of.

17. Forbes once referred to him as “a twisted version of Robin Hood, who robs from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers.”

18. He often charged prostitutes to his company card, even writing them off on his taxes.

19. Perhaps the reason Belfort still seems to have such fond memories of the days he was flying high and mighty with other people's money is that he only had to serve 22 months in jail for stealing over $110 million.

20. After spending a week in solitary confinement, he was put into a low security work camp with tennis courts, a library and plenty of physical activities to keep him busy.

Source Elite Daily and TVOM