By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gul fstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who wait ed at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who calle d him king, here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fa ted genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort becam e one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conni ving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It's an extraordinary story of gr eed, power, and excess no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions - until it all came crashing down.