“After all, it wasn’t every firm that sported hookers in the basement, drug dealers in the parking lot, exotic animals in the boardroom, and midget-tossing competitions on Fridays.”īelfort’s background in finance was limited. “It should have been Sodom and Gomorrah,” Belfort would later write. Stratton Oakmont, the firm he started, became a kind of cult. Belfort was convicted of scamming more than $100 million throughout the nineties to finance a hedonistic paradise. Jordan Belfort? And Jordan Belfort is also a convict, one of a particularly loathed class-a white-collar crook who duped innocent investors to finance an insatiable greed. The city of Los Angeles and its satellite communities like Manhattan Beach make up the celebrity mecca of the universe, and among all the hot stars and not-so-hot ones who can be spotted around here, the name does not quite register. The spotting is incredible for many reasons. “Can I get a picture?” she asks, and soon her smartphone camera is clicking.
Juice Bar Woman is a bona fide Jordan Belfort groupie. She tells him what big fans she and her friends are of his books, that she follows his motivational-speaking career on the web. “Actually,” the waitress goes on, “we just looked you up on the Internet. He’s never been recognized like this before. “You look just like Jordan Belfort!”īelfort looks confused. “I can’t sleep,” he tells me as the waitress arrives to take our order. Even in prison, he couldn’t make it stop. It’s a brilliant summer afternoon, and over at the juice bar, drenched in sweat after hitting for an hour or so, Jordan Belfort and I are parked on stools and talking about his Big Problem.
The courts at the tennis club in Manhattan Beach are full, and the pool is overflowing with bikinis.
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