Career Early ventures īelfort became a door-to-door meat and seafood salesman on Long Island, New York. If you're here simply because you're looking to make a lot of money, you're in the wrong place.' Belfort subsequently elected not to attend the graduate program. However, the dean of the dental school gave a welcoming speech on the first day in which he said 'The golden age of dentistry is over. Belfort planned on using the money earned with Loewenstern to pay for dental school, and he enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. īelfort went on to graduate from American University with a degree in biology. Between completing high school and starting college, Belfort and his close childhood friend Elliot Loewenstern earned $20,000 selling Italian ice from styrofoam coolers to people at a local beach. His father Max and his mother Leah were both accountants. He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007, which was adapted into a Martin Scorsese film of the same name released in 2013, in which he was played by Leonardo DiCaprio.īelfort was born in 1962 in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to Jewish parents.

Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam. Jordan Ross Belfort ( / ˈ b ɛ l f ə r t/ born July 9, 1962) is an American former stockbroker, financial criminal, entrepreneur, speaker, and author.

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