Overview
- The three-part series, which premiered Tuesday, July 14, 2026, is now streaming globally on Paramount+ with all episodes available at launch.
- Producers used thousands of internal FBI documents, rare archival footage and new interviews to reconstruct Stratton Oakmont’s operations and to place personal testimony at the center of the story.
- The documentary confirms many scenes familiar from the 2013 film while identifying fictionalized moments and presenting former FBI agents and ex-brokers who say the real misconduct was often worse than the movie showed.
- Belfort’s legal record is restated in the series: he pled guilty to securities fraud and money laundering, served about 22 months in a federal facility, and a judge ordered $110.4 million in restitution that remains largely unpaid under a court payment plan.
- The program explains how Stratton Oakmont ran a planned pump-and-dump scheme that inflated penny-stock prices so insiders could sell at a profit which cost more than 1,000 novice investors millions and could renew pressure for stricter enforcement of victim repayment.