Himself no stranger to fraud, Jordan Belfort thought something wasn’t right about this setup. The event must have cost at least $3 million, Belfort calculated, as he nibbled on canapes and watched the A-list entertainment, And the movie hadn’t even gone into production
“This is a fucking scam--anybody who does this has stolen money, "Belfort told Anne, as the music thumped. "You wouldn’t spend money you worked for like that”
A few months later, Low would offer Belfort $500,000 to attend an event in Las Vegas with Dicaprio, Red Granite had paid him handsomely for the rights to his memoir. But Belfort was starting to distrust this group. Eager to stay out of trouble focusing instead on his new career as a writer and motivational speaker, Belfort turned them down, but Dicaprio and his costar Margot Robbie went along
“Leo got sucked in,” Belfort later told Swiss journalist Katharina Bart, “Leos an honest guy, But I met these guys, and said to Anne, These guys are fucking criminals. I was like, I don't need these fucking people. I knew it, was so obvious”引自第148页
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