And she wasn’t interviewing for a broker job - she was interviewing to be a cold caller. ” Like Stratton Oakmont, it was known in Wall Street parlance as a “chop shop” or “boiler room” - a firm selling securities by pumping up stock shares of certain house stocks and companies. The firm where she was interviewing, VTR, was an offshoot of Stratton Oakmont, the firm made famous in the 2013 film “Wolf of Wall Street. I could be the dark horse that no one sees coming.” I actually thought that was my advantage. I never had this question, ‘Oh my God, I’m a woman and I’m black. “There was no doubt in my head I could do it. “I knew I could be a stockbroker,” Fabré says to the Post. Now she’s written a book that’s got people talking. Fabré (left) was in her mid-twenties when she first began working on Wall Street. And when a friend offered her an interview with his investment company, Fabré jumped at the chance. She also worked part-time in a Cohen’s Fashion Optical outlet, taking in $50,000 a year before high school graduation. As a teenager in a Long Island City high school, Fabré would steal lunch tickets from the school office and sell them for their $1 face value, using sales skills to get students to buy from her rather than the school. How she got there is the subject of her memoir, “Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street” (Henry Holt, out now) which chronicles the racism, sexism, and hedonism that ran Wall Street until the dot-com crash - and which Fabré believes still runs Wall Street today.įabré had always had the ‘hustle’ mentality. But she was handling millions of dollars, including the portfolio of an owner of a prestigious UK football team, working at one of the oldest firms on the New York Stock Exchange. Cin Fabré got her trading start at the “chop shop” whose wild ways were depicted in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Paramountįabré was in her mid-twenties at the time, the daughter of Haitian immigrants.
That meant checking to make sure hotel rooms were up to standard for whatever was being offered. As a broker, Fabré considered it part of her job to make sure that clients were satisfied. As a stockbroker on Wall Street in the late 1990s, she often found herself enticing clients to stay with her firm by offering them drinks, dinner, and “dessert” - dessert being the services of a sex worker. While she and Aldano had walked in to ensure the hotel room was clean and client-ready, she was unfazed by her clients actions. Wordlessly, the pair closed the door while their client, oblivious, continued what he was doing. Key in hand, they opened the door to a room they had booked - and found themselves staring at the bare behind of one of their clients, caught in the middle of the act with a sex worker. Cin Fabré and her investment partner Aldano were walking briskly through the halls of a Times Square hotel one evening.
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