A federal judge ordered the actor Leonardo DiCaprio give evidence in a libel suit brought by a former executive of Stratton Oakmont on the way to which he was supposedly depicted in the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", Martin Scorsese.
The US judge Steven Locke, New York, said on Thursday that DiCaprio should be made available for questions, a decision that was opposed by Paramount Pictures, the Appian Way Productions, DiCaprio, among other defendants.
The author of the case, Andrew Greene, came in 2014 with the action as it seeks more than $ 50 million, claiming to have been defamed in the film by the interpretation of the actor PJ Byrne a character with ethical and moral deviations called Nicky Koskoff.
Paramount said Koskoff was a "composite character" inspired by several individuals, including Greene.
DiCaprio, 41, played the role of Jordan Belfort, a trickster, who founded Stratton Oakmont, whose 2007 memoir was the basis of the film. Greene is a friend of Belfort childhood.
To oppose the questioning, the lawyers said DiCaprio did not write the script, and there was no claim that he had any influence on the decision to include or not the allegedly defamatory content in the film.
Greene's lawyers said they had asked Scorsese and screenwriter Terence Winter, and both testified that they met regularly with DiCaprio to discuss the script.
Louis Petrich, lawyer of the accused, declined to comment.
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