Jordan Belfort

Film & TV Context

The Wolf of Wall Street is set primarily in the late 1980s and early 1990s, spanning roughly 1987 to 1991. This period covers the buildup of Jordan Belfort's securities fraud op...

business-biography

Jordan Belfort’s office was the epicenter of the high‑flying 1990s brokerage Stratton Oakmont, operating primarily from a Long Island executive suite before regulatory actio...

people

Jordan Belfort is a former stockbroker best known for founding the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont in the 1990s and for his later role as a convicted felon and federal informant...

relationship

Stratton Oakmont was a Long Island–based over-the-counter brokerage that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jordan Belfort was its founder and co-owner, alongside Dan...

status

Jordan Belfort was sentenced to four years in federal prison for securities fraud and related crimes and served approximately 22 months, from November 1999 to around September 2...

Celebrity Profiles

Jordan Belfort’s earnings and net worth are best understood as the trajectory of a high-income sales career derailed by fraud and regulated markets. This profile focuses on ve...

people

Leah Belfort is the former wife of Jordan Belfort, the convicted fraudster and former stockbroker popularized by the film The Wolf of Wall Street. As his spouse during the peak...

Relationships

Jordan Belfort and the movie based on his life center on The Wolf of Wall Street, a 2013 feature that adapted his memoir and federal case records. This relationship explainer cl...

finance-law

Jordan Belfort became a criminal by running a boiler room that sold unregistered shares and defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. As the founder of Stratto...

Status Updates

Jordan Belfort, known as the Wolf of Wall Street, is not currently arrested as of the latest verified records. This status clarifier outlines Belfort’s legal history, past con...