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Jordan Belfort

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Jordan Ross Belfort (; born July 9, 1962) is an American former stockbroker, financial criminal, and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam in 1999. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which, becoming an informant for the FBI and wearing a wire, he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jordan Belfort has received more than 27,684,648 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Jordan Belfort is the 54th most popular extremist (up from 58th in 2019), the 1,121st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,258th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Extremist.

Jordan Belfort is most famous for being a wealthy stockbroker in the 1980s who defrauded investors of $200 million.

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  • 28M

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  • 61.34

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jordan Belfort ranks 54 out of 209Before him are Madame de Brinvilliers, Abu Nidal, Butch Cassidy, Patrizia Reggiani, Edmund Kemper, and Gudrun Ensslin. After him are Friedrich Jeckeln, George Habash, Frank Sheeran, Karl Denke, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Johnny Torrio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Jordan Belfort ranks 19Before him are Jon Bon Jovi, Sandra, Alexander Litvinenko, Olga Tokarczuk, Steve Carell, and Abdullah II of Jordan. After him are Wesley Snipes, Izzy Stradlin, Kirk Hammett, Clyde Drexler, Dave Gahan, and Michelle Yeoh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jordan Belfort ranks 1,121 out of 18,182Before him are Jill Biden (1951), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Robert Aldrich (1918), David Hasselhoff (1952), David Bohm (1992), and Eleanor H. Porter (1868). After him are Mr. T (1952), Jeff Koons (1955), Jimmy Connors (1952), Liliʻuokalani (1838), Robert Knepper (1959), and Jaco Pastorius (1951).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Jordan Belfort ranks 18Before him are H. H. Holmes (1861), William Kemmler (1860), George Jung (1942), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Butch Cassidy (1866), and Edmund Kemper (1948). After him are Frank Sheeran (1920), Barry Seal (1939), Timothy McVeigh (1968), Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), and Ma Barker (1873).

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