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Stock Market Multimillionaire at 26, Federal Convict at 36, I Partied Like a Rock Star, Lived Like a King, and Barely Survived. My Rise and Fall as an American Entrepreneurial Icon
Bantam
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
528 pages
ISBN: 0553805460
EAN: 9780553805468
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a
$700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him
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… 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 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…
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