Khalaf is quoted in Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf of Wall Street, “The press onslaught had started in 1991, when an insolent reporter from Forbes magazine, Roula Khalaf, coined me as a twisted version of Robin Hood, who robs from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers. She deserved an A for cleverness, of course.”[9] She is fictionalized as Aliyah Farran (played by Sandra Nelson) in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 movie, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film).[10]