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15. Investors’ Story Left Out of Wall St. ‘Wolf’ Movie By SUSAN ANTILLA

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 07:07 AM

Dec 2013

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/investors-story-left-out-of-wall-st-wolf-movie/?src=dlbksb&_r=2

...The Martin Scorsese film about the Wolf — Jordan Belfort in real life, played by Leonardo DiCaprio — tells how Mr. Belfort swindled thousands of investors out of more than $100 million as head of a penny-stock boiler room in the 1990s.

The film, which is coming out on Christmas Day, is an “almost nonstop parade of sex, drugs, nudity and rock and roll,” according to the online magazine Deadline Hollywood.

Left untold is the story of the victims, disparaged as “garbage” by Mr. DiCaprio’s character in the movie....

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