The “Wolf of Wall Street” has a wildcat in his corner.
The fiancée of real-life finance crook Jordan Belfort — being played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming flick — is blasting federal prosecutors for attacking him as an unreformed deadbeat.
In a scalding letter filed in Brooklyn federal court and addressed to Judge John Gleeson, Belfort’s blond betrothed, Anne Koppe, accuses prosecutor Beth Schwartz of indulging in a personal vendetta against the stock fraudster — and insists he has turned from scammer to saint.
“This has now become a miscarriage of justice of massive proportions,” she roars in the letter. “Not only is this a complete waste of taxpayer’s money and the US attorney’s time, but it’s as if the assistant US attorney has it out for Jordan personally.”
The feds point out that Belfort, 51, has paid only $11.6 million of the $110 million restitution he owes to victims of the massive pump-and-dump penny-stock scheme he ran during the 1980s and ’90s, according to court filings.
He now runs a motivational speaking firm with Koppe, and prosecutors want him to fork over half of his yearly take to his victims.
But the fallen financier’s lawyers counter that the arrangement expired after his supervised release ended in 2009.
Belfort and Koppe claim that the feds have refused to set up a repayment schedule and that he makes regular restitution payments, regardless.
Born in Queens, the fraudster spent his mountain of cash like a maniac before the feds sniffed out the scheme and sent him to jail for two years in 1998.
The debauched tale caught the attention of Hollywood, and “The Wolf of Wall Street” — based on Belfort’s memoir of the same name and also starring Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill — is set for release in mid-November.
DiCaprio offers a tender endorsement of the man he portrays, in a video testimonial on Belfort’s Web site. “Jordan stands as a shining example of the transformative qualities of ambition and hard work, and in that regard he a true motivator,” he said.
“Jordan is no longer a criminal,” Koppe wrote in her letter to the court. “He is an exemplary contributor to the economy. He is a taxpayer and a very hard-working man.”
While Belfort readily gives interviews about his life and fame, his fiancée asked Gleeson to shut the media out of any future court hearings regarding his debt.
“No matter how much common sense is exercised, the sensationalism of the media can only hurt,” she observed.