The prototype of the fish tank cleaner in "The Wolf of Wall Street" is Jordan Belfort.

The movie mentions at the beginning: "The world of investment and financial management is like a virgin forest. In bull market and bear market, you will encounter risks around the corner." Only those who are full of blood like lions or wolves can travel safely. A jungle beast in the financial management world. Therefore, no employees are allowed to slack off in Oakmont. What Jordan needs are employees who maintain the same wolfish nature as him.

However, the employee who cleaned the goldfish tank was obviously out of tune with the surrounding atmosphere. At that time, everyone in the company was excited about the company's initial public offering, but that employee was cleaning the goldfish bowl. Donnie ate the goldfish and fired him just to warn other employees that it would be impossible to fish in troubled waters here like him.

The film "The Wolf of Wall Street" is adapted from Jordan Belfort's personal memoir, telling the story of his fortune-making career on the edge of the law and his sinking life lost in sex and drugs. In the film, Jordan Belfort is a legendary stockbroker in the 1980s who was nicknamed the "Wolf of Wall Street" by Forbes.

At its peak, the Stratton Oakmont company he founded employed 1,000 stockbrokers and involved a total stock issuance of more than $1 billion. He never hired experienced agents, instead recruiting friends, family and twenty-somethings to follow his ruthless sales credo: sell or die. He was later arrested for fraud.

Jordan Belfort profile:

Jordan Belfort (Jordan Belfort), born on July 9, 1962 in the Bronx, New York, USA, is an American stockbroker and motivational speaker At the age of 30, he was hailed as the "Robin Hood of the stock market" by Forbes magazine. He made money by walking on the edge of the law and even breaking the law, creating a miracle of earning 12 million US dollars in 3 minutes.

In 1997, his company Stratton Oakmont was expelled from the National Association of Securities Dealers for defrauding customers, and he himself was charged with fraud by the federal government and sent to prison.

He wrote his autobiography "The Wolf of Wall Street" while in prison, telling the story of how he grew from an ordinary salesman to a millionaire, and went to jail after experiencing crazy money-making, alcoholism, drug abuse, and money laundering, and his dream of wealth was shattered. go through.

Served 4 years in federal prison in 1998 and ordered to pay a large sum of money. In the same year as the conviction Nadine Kalida was divorced (2 children) 1991–1998, securities fraud, money laundering.

Jordan Belfort is an American motivational speaker and former stockbroker. He was convicted of fraud and related offenses of manipulating securities markets and spent 22 months in prison. In his memoir, The Wolf of Wall Street, he recounts his life. In 2013, a film adaptation of the same name was released, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort. Belfort himself also guest-starred as an event host at the end of the film.