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The real “Wolf of Wall Street” is making sure the investors he swindled at the height of his broker days are benefiting from the success of the film — all the profits from the movie are going to them.
Jordan Belfort, who is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-nominated Martin Scorsese film, served 22 months behind bars for his con-man crimes and now he’s hoping the success of his biopic helps the millionaires he duped hate him a little less.
He tells Entertainment Tonight, “They’re (victims) getting 100 per cent of any royalties that come from the movie… When I first sold the rights, I made money, but (I’ll get) nothing going forward.”
As part of his sentence, Belfort was ordered to pay back $110.4 million.
He adds, “If there’s one thing I’d wanna say to the victims is, ‘I hope you get a lot of checks over the next five or 10 years from this movie’.”