Real Wolf of Wall Street’s ex-wife reveals grim Jonah Hill act in film actually happened in real life
The woman who was married to the real-life Wolf of Wall Street in his heyday has revealed that a grim scene in the film actually happened to her.
Now, you're probably wondering which weird moment I'm referring to, given the fact that there's plenty of bizarre things in Martin Scorsese's 2013 flick.
There's a dwarf-throwing contest at one point, Leonardo DiCaprio tumbles down a flight of stairs while high as a kite on Quaaludes and Jonah Hill scrans a goldfish.
But these strange moments are a lot more light-hearted than one particular scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, which was directly inspired by Nadine Macaluso's real life experience.
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Jordan Belfort's former wife, dubbed the 'Duchess of Bay Ridge', was expertly played by Margot Robbie in the hit film.
The Australian actress had a host of memorable moments in the movie, including her intimate moment with co-star Dicaprio in their child's nursery and their brutal fight at the end.
Robbie sat down with Macaluso ahead of filming to get some tips on how to play her, as The Wolf of Wall Street is based on real-life tales included in Belfort's 2007 memoir.
Although the movie is based on the true story of the stockbroker's unbelievable rise and fall, Scorsese obviously upped the dramatics for the sake of entertainment and exaggerated a few things.
But Macaluso has now revealed that one disturbing scene in the film wasn't sensationalised at all, as it really did happen to her in real life.
The licensed marriage and family therapist, now 57, explained that a man really did expose himself to her at the infamous party at a beachfront mansion in West Hampton.
As viewers may remember, Jonah Hill was the actor who was tasked with recreating this creepy incident in The Wolf of Wall Street.
During an appearance on Matthew Cox's Inside True Crime podcast in February this year, Macaluso opened up about what really went down.
"It wasn't as big as the party in the movie, but it was certainly at a beautiful house on the ocean," she said of Scorsese's depiction of the day she first met her future husband.
"I showed up, I didn't know anybody there and I certainly didn't know my ex-husband at the time. I went with my current boyfriend and I walked in and everybody seemed very strange."
She explained that this was because the guests weren't exactly 'sober' and were all 'on ludes' - but this wasn't what threw her for a spin.
Macaluso continued: "The thing that was shocking to me more about the party, was the way everybody behaved.
"And just as the movie depicted, somebody did expose themselves to me. I ran out of there with my boyfriend. I was like, 'We have to get the hell out of here - these people are crazy'.
"I felt embarrassed... it wasn't my shame to carry, but. They were so out of control. I ran in and I ran out - now that should have been a red flag, but I was 22 and clueless."
Macaluso previously touched on the incident in a TikTok post last year too, while recalling how most men in attendance at the party were 'making lewd and weird comments'.
She said she was 'terrified' when the bloke exposed himself to her and 'left right away' with her boyfriend at the time.
As for how accurate the film was as a whole, Macaluso added: "I think that if you look at it through Jordan's lens it was really accurate.
"I think that if you look at it through my lens it wasn't, and that makes sense because that was actually how our marriage was."
Topics: Celebrity, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Sex and Relationships, Weird
Olivia Burke