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Yale law professor wants to help real ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ victims

A Yale Law School professor wants to personally help pay back the stock-fraud victims of real-life “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort, according to an unusual Brooklyn federal-court filing.

In a letter to Judge John Gleeson, professor Ian ­Ayres said he was so moved by Martin Scorsese’s flick about Belfort’s criminal rise and fall, he wants to help victims recover some of the estimated $100 million they lost to the Queens native.

And the clock is ticking. The Ivy League educator wrote: “Time is of the essence, because it would be useful to be able to announce a method of contribution before the Academy Awards” on March 2.

“If possible, I would like to find a way for people like me to make small contributions to the restitution fund,” he writes in the Jan. 24 missive on official Yale Law School letterhead.

Ayres also told the judge that he has approached the film’s producers “to see if they would collaborate in sharing part of the film’s profits with the fund and might help to promote the possibility of viewer donations to the fund.”

Belfort, 51, served 22 months in prison for swindling his victims and was ordered to pay $110 million in restitution related to his pump-and-dump schemes.

The feds have said he forked over just $11 million after his 2003 sentencing but have since withdrawn their deadbeat accusations while they review his paperwork, according to court papers.

Belfort was depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-nominated film.