Former Stratton Oakmont executive Andrew Greene is suing the production companies associated with the Oscar-nominated film, The Wolf of Wall Street. The 2013 film, directed by Martin Scorsese, starred Leonardo DiCaprio as convicted stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Greene, who was general counsel at Belfort’s former firm Stratton Oakmont in the mid-1990s, is suing Paramount Pictures, Red Granite Pictures, Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions. In the lawsuit, Greene contends that he was the basis for the character of Nicky “Rugrat Koskoff” and that he was “portrayed as a criminal, drug user, degenerate, depraved, and/or devoid of any morality or ethics,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Back in October 2015, U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert rejected Greene’s privacy claim. However, the defamation claim was allowed to continue, but Greene has to establish that the producers were grossly negligent when it came to whatever was false about Koskoff in the movie. On Monday, Greene submitted his summary judgment opposition brief. He also submitted collected pieces of evidence, including depositions from Scorsese, DiCaprio and screenwriter Terence Winter. He says that they are the three individuals most responsible for script development and according to Greene, all three have discussed under oath their very limited attempts to research the accuracy of the portrayals in the film.
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