Real Wolf of Wall Street's ex-wife explains what made Jordan Belfort become a 'monster'
Warning: This article contains discussion of drug addiction which some readers may find distressing.
Jordan Belfort’s ex-wife has explained what she thinks made him become a ‘monster’.
The former stock broker is of course the subject of the legendary 2013 film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated flick was based on Belfort’s 2007 memoir, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing him.
A favourite movie of many, it documents the American’s career working in New York City as well as the corruption and fraud of Wall Street.
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The film is loaded with memorable moments from a naked Margot Robbie to DiCaprio falling down the stairs and some of the scenes really did happen in real life.
Belfort’s ex-wife Nadine Macaluso has previously confirmed some of those as the movie is of course dramatised in parts to make it more entertaining.
And she’s also very open about her real relationship with Belfort, who she was married to from 1991 until 2005.
Appearing on Anything Goes with James English, the woman was asked how much of an effect drug use played on his ‘anger and frustration’ as anyone who has watched the film knows, drugs were almost a main character.
And Macaluso simply said: “I think the drugs made him a monster.”
The 56-year-old continued of her ex: “I think he has a strong narcissistic grandiose character anyway, right. But I think then the drugs really took him down.”
She went on to add her belief that ‘most successful people’ have narcissistic traits which can make a person ‘selfish and self-absorbed’.
“But I think the drugs are what really drove him to lose it with me.” The pair separated in the early 00s after Macaluso made claims of domestic violence, accusing him of infidelity and alleging he was suffering from a drug addiction.
She previously spoke in a TikTok about how she met Belfort, confirming it really was like how it went down in the film.
"Well, it's actually pretty similar to the movie. I was, I guess, 22 years old and modelling and my boyfriend at the time, said, 'You want to go to this party in Westhampton in this house on the beach?', and I was like, 'Sure.’,” she said.
"And so we pulled up, and I remember walking into the house, and there were all these people acting really weird. Little did I know that they were all Quaaluded out, I had no idea."
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Topics: Drugs, TV and Film, Celebrity
Jess Battison