"It's the most idiotic thing ever," he said. The former broker told the Hollywood Reporter he believes he is no longer obliged to pay 50% of his income in restitution, as US justice department officials have stated. But it was under the of massive quantities of drugs."īelfort has been criticised for benefiting financially by at least $1m from the sale of the screen rights to his life story, despite the fact that he has paid only $11.6m out of the $110.4m he was bound over to pay victims as part of his sentencing in 2003. I'm not trying to minimise it it was awful what I did. "It was more of a struggle where she grabbed onto my leg and I kicked out. "I never punched my wife in the stomach," he said. However, the former broker, who now works as a motivational speaker, said a scene at the end of the film where Belfort attacks his wife is fictionalised. "I took him through the stages and I was rolling on the floor in his house as he was filming me." "I spent hundreds of hours with Leo doing everything you could imagine, from hanging out socially to showing him what it's like to be on drugs," he said. Belfort admits in the interview that this might be his fault. The Wolf of Wall Street has been criticised by disability-rights groups for a scene in which DiCaprio reaches "cerebral palsy stage" while under the influence of the drug. Scorsese's film includes a number of scenes in which Belfort and his cronies imbibe quaaludes, a long-banned sedative with apparent devastating consequences if taken in high doses. Although I'd say I did more quaaludes than cocaine." "In some respects, my life was even worse than that. "The drug use and the stuff with the hookers and the sales assistants and the sex in the office … that stuff is really, really accurate," said Belfort.
The 51-year-old, who served 22 months in jail for securities fraud between 20 after setting up the discredited Stratton Oakmont brokerage and penny stock "boiler room" in Long Island, said Terence Winter's screenplay had not needed to exaggerate his outrageous existence. Jordan Belfort made the admission in a candid interview with the Hollywood Reporter days before this year's Oscars ceremony, where Scorsese's controversial film is up for five prizes. The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.