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The career rise of Nadine Macaluso, from modeling and marrying the 'Wolf of Wall Street' to divorcing him and becoming a family therapist

Britney Nguyen
Sun, October 16, 2022, 8:05 PM·5 min read
on left: Margot Robbie on set of The Wolf of Wall Street, on right: the real life Nadine Macaluso with a pink MacBook
Margot Robbie, left, played Macaluso in Martin Scorsese's 2013 film adaptation of "The Wolf of Wall Street."Ignat/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images and Courtesy of Nadine Macaluso

  • Nadine Macaluso started her career as a model to support herself before she met her ex-husband.

  • While married to Jordan Belfort, Macaluso gave up modeling and started a maternity company.

  • After leaving Belfort, Macaluso found her path to therapy through meditation and earned her Ph.D.

More than 20 years after ending her marriage to Jordan Belfort, famously known as the "Wolf of Wall Street," Nadine Macaluso is a family therapist and somatic psychologist using the experiences in her marriage to help others leave abusive relationships.

Macaluso, 54, was played by Margot Robbie in Martin Scorsese's 2013 film, "The Wolf of Wall Street," which was adapted from Belfort's autobiography of the same name. She said that six months into her relationship with Belfort, she realized she needed help.

"That relationship sent me right into therapy," Macaluso said.

Macaluso recently talked to Insider about the abuse she experienced in her seven-year marriage to Belfort, including gaslighting and domestic violence.

But back then, Macaluso never would have guessed she'd become a therapist herself.

Supporting herself as a model

Macaluso was raised in Brooklyn by her "very psychologically inclined" single mother, she said.

nadine macaluso wearing a blue ski suit on skis in a 1992 Winter Games ad for Seagram's
Macaluso in a 1992 Winter Games ad for Seagram's.Courtesy of Nadine Macaluso

hen she was 17, Macaluso, who said she graduated high school early, realized she had to take care of herself because she couldn't afford to stay in college.

"I was working in the city, and people would come up to me and say, 'You should be a model,'" Macaluso said, but she believed at 5 feet 6½ inches, she was too short to model.

She went to an agency called Elite Petite and launched her modeling career doing commercials for Wrigley's gum and Miller Lite beer.

While she said she had fun as a model, she didn't love it, "because my mother had always instilled in me that looks go and education is the only thing that you can count on."

Around the time she met Belfort, Macaluso said she was going to do a TV pilot season — the time when networks pick up new shows — in Los Angeles, and was working on losing her Brooklyn accent to be in national commercials.

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