![]() Red Granite’s attorney, Matthew Schwartz of Boies Schiller Flexner, said on Thursday that Belfort’s suit has no merit. ![]() In March 2018, Red Granite agreed to pay $60 million to settle the civil forfeiture action. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture suit in 2016 to recoup some of the proceeds of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which grossed $392 million worldwide. Jordan Belfort, the pump-and-dump scammer immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, said in a lawsuit Thursday that he was victimized by a far grander scam. “I said to Anne, ‘This is a f-ing scam, anybody who does this has stolen money.’… I knew it, it was so obvious.” Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street Raw and frequently hilarious. A few months after he sold the rights, he said the company threw a multi-million dollar launch party at Cannes. It’s an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millionsuntil it all came crashing down. ![]() “I met these guys, and said to Anne (his fiancee)‚ ‘These guys are f-ing criminals,'” Belfort said in the interview. ![]() In a 2017 interview with, however, Belfort said he knew upon meeting the people around Red Granite that they were “f-ing criminals.” “Had he known he certainly never would have sold the rights.” “Belfort was completely blindsided to learn, after the fact, of the source of funding for Red Granite and the film based on his book/story, as Defendants concealed these criminal acts and funding sources from him,” the suit states. ![]() According to the suit, Belfort believed Aziz when he said that Red Granite’s money came from legitimate sources, including high-net worth individuals and Goldman Sachs. ![]()
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