Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort had another get-rich-quick scheme after he was arrested in 1998 and his Stratton Oakmont brokerage went belly up — vitamins and diet pills.
Belfort started Biometrics Weight Loss Corp. with $2.2 million funding from George Benedict, his AA sponsor, mentor and pal. The official address for Biometrics was Benedict’s Seafield rehab center in Westhampton, where Lindsay Lohan’s dad Michael was a patient.
Biometrics was a total loss. But after recouping $200,000, Benedict got an acknowledgment in Belfort’s bestselling book:
“And lastly, I’d like to thank the most positive influence in my life, George Benedict, who by sheer example, proved to me that a leopard can definitely change his spots. There is no person in my life who has ever been kinder and more supportive of me.”
Belfort told The Post’s Isabel Vincent: “We went into business together and he laid out all the money and we got totally buried. It was a real disaster . . . . When a business goes bad it really goes bad!”
Benedict obtained two court judgments, the second after Belfort went to prison for 22 months, and he is still trying to collect $2 million.
Describing Belfort, Benedict said, “He’s an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.”