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The Untold Story Behind The Wolf of Wall Street & Jordan Belfort | Nadine Macaluso
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What were the early signs of trouble in Nadine's relationship with Jordan Belfort?
And I walked in and everybody seemed very strange. Now that should have been a red flag. Once you can't make phone calls from your own house, that's a sign that something's not right. In the movie, they show him getting arrested at a heliport, but that's not what happened. He would send his driver to my house with a Bulgari watch. Here's $15,000 in cash, go have fun.
There's all these grand gestures that feel so fun, but they do hide the red flags. I was raised actually in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, hence the name, the Duchess of Bay Ridge. Right. Right. From the movie. And so I was raised by a single mother in the seventies in Brooklyn and it was incredible. There was no internet. We played on the streets from, you know, morning till night.
So they rang the bell and came in and it was, it was a great magical time. But since I was raised by a single mom, I needed to make money. So that's when I headed into New York city to become a model.
in the 80s i immediately think of see i think of these things i know colby doesn't know but i i think of Oh, gosh, what was his name? He did those videos. This had to be in the late 80s with the models behind him, you know, Addicted to Love.
Oh, I did that. I was one of those girls. Are you serious? Yeah. Yes, in the Robin Palmer. Might as well face it, you're addicted to love. Are you serious? I did the Rock Awards with him. And so, yep, I did that live in the Rock Awards behind him.
That is funny.
Yeah. That was fun.
So, well, I mean, how hard was it to become a model? Like that's can't be easy.
It was really hard to go up against the most beautiful girls in the world. And since I'm short, I'm five, seven for a model. I did a lot of commercials. And so that's, I did Wrigley's gum. I did Mountain Dew. I did a Miller light commercial that was on during all the football games. And so that was about, so I don't think I'm about 21, almost 22. And it was hard to be a model, but,
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Chapter 2: How did Nadine's upbringing influence her choices?
In Florida, right, not New York City. Yeah, and so I was modeling at the time, going to Studio 54, running around the city, listening to Madonna. I was living in Brooklyn Heights, having the time of my life. And as the movie The Wolf of Wall Street depicts, I showed up at a party in the Hamptons that would change my life forever.
Oh, okay. I'm sorry. So, well, how did that go? First, I have to mention, I'll bet you Colby doesn't know what Studio 54 is.
Really? The 54 Studio. Yeah, I don't know. Is it produced movies? That's my guess. No.
So in the 80s, there were the most amazing clubs in New York City. And you would go and you would dance all night. Studio 54, Xenon's, the Red Parrot. all of these fantastic clubs.
I mean, like there are movies about studios.
There's movies about it. Every famous person in the world in the 70s and 80s went there.
Went there, all of them. And whenever, by the way, whenever they got to tell their story, they always throw it in there.
Yeah.
Because it's iconic.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of the party in the Hamptons?
I mean, was there... So did you understand, like, were there times where he was explaining to you what they're doing, you know, and how... you know, how illegal what they're doing is? Like, did you realize like, hey, this is absolute fraud? Like this is a pump and dump scheme. No, no, no.
Because first of all, I don't, again, I'm 23 years old. I don't understand anything about the stock market. I mean, I certainly thought it was wild how they could make so much money. But I really didn't understand all the intricacies of what he was doing. I remember I was much more focused on my relationship with him. And then he left Stratton a year after we were married.
He got fined like $100,000. And so he left Stratton, Oakmont. But then he was controlling it all from behind the scenes.
Oh, okay. So that's different.
Yeah. And then Danny was the guy who was running Stratton.
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. They shift that to where he's running the whole time. It's just the very end when Danny comes in, right?
Yes. Yeah. And then even if I did see something that I didn't agree with or question him about it, Jordan Belfort is not listening to me.
Yeah, yeah. No. No, I could see that.
He's not. He's not going to be like, really, Nancy? Oh, tell me what you think about that stock deal.
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