Who Is John Macaluso? All About Nadine Caridi’s Husband

John Macaluso is the husband of Nadine Caridi, a model and therapist who is famous as the ex-wife of Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker and convicted felon whose life inspired the movie The Wolf of Wallstreet. Macaluso is an American businessman and entrepreneur.

Nadine Caridi’s marriage and divorce from Belfort shot her into the limelight, especially after a movie based on his life was filmed and released in 2013. She has since begun to capitalize on this exposure to build a huge career as a therapist.

After marrying Nadine Caridi, John Macaluso shot into the limelight himself mainly because of how the media keeps tabs on Caridi to know who her next husband would be. Once it was discovered that Macaluso had married Caridi, he became a topic of discussion. The couple has been living peacefully with each other for over two decades.

John Macaluso Was Born 67 Years Ago

There have been some discrepancies about John Macaluso’s real age in recent times. Some reports claimed that he was born on August 4, 1940, and others claimed that his real year of birth is not known. However, we investigated this and found out that these claims are not true.

John Macaluso does not have an Instagram page. However, we went through his wife, Nadine Caridi’s Instagram page and found out she celebrated Macaluso’s birthday on the 3rd of August.

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Also, we dug up an old interview that John Macaluso granted in 2019 and found out he was born in 1956. The man confirmed this information by himself during the interview. This means that John Macaluso was born on the 3rd of August, 1956, and is now 67 years old.

Very little is known about Macaluso’s childhood or where he grew up. However, in his 2019 interview, he gave some insight into how he spent his early days with his family. He revealed that he was quite obsessed with comic and sci-fi shows as a child and would watch them at every given chance. In fact, he often pretended to be sick so he can skip school and stay at home to watch comics and sci-fi shows.

He also revealed that he grew up with older sisters, however, their identities have not been revealed yet. Also, information about who his parents are remains elusive. It is believed that John Macaluso had a lot of formal education and studied widely mainly because of how well he speaks and what he has achieved in his career. However, we do not have information about his educational qualifications or what schools he went to.

John Macaluso First Met Nadine Caridi On A Blind Date

John Macaluso and Nadine Caridi share an amazing love story that has lasted for decades and is still going strong today. But how did it all begin for the couple? Caridi once revealed the details about this in an interview with SouthBay where she talked about her career, her family, and her love life.

During the interview, she revealed that she and John Macaluso first met on a blind date. According to her, they had their blind date in New York City and she was blown away by Macaluso whose charm was quite irresistible. However, she did not reveal when this blind date happened. What is certain is that they clicked after meeting for the first time and decided to take things further.

Caridi explained that they fell madly in love after meeting on the blind date and they became practically inseparable. In fact, six months after they started dating, they decided to move in together in Manhattan Beach. John Macaluso was living in Beverly Hills but decided to move to Manhattan Beach where he had a house so that they could be together. After dating for a while, John Macaluso proposed to Nadine Caridi and she accepted.

Nadine Caridi Has Been John Macaluso’s Wife For Over Two Decades

Eventually, John Macaluso and Nadina Caridi tied the knot and became husband and wife. According to our findings, the couple tied the knot in 2001. It is not clear how the event was held or who was in attendance. However, it is believed that family and close friends all attended the event to celebrate with the couple.

Since their marriage, Macaluso and his wife have remained together and it appears that their romance is only getting better as the years pass by. It’s been more than 20 years since they tied the knot as husband and wife and they are still going strong. They are both very fond of each other and Caridi is known to show off Macaluso very often on her Instagram page.

In one of the Instagram posts she made about him, she has described him as the man of her dreams, explaining that she is very proud of the man he has become. She described the years they’ve been married as a ‘wild ride’ and explained that even though their marriage is far from being a perfect one, she is grateful for the effort they put in to make things work.

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They Have 5 Children Between Themselves

John Macaluso and Nadine Caridi currently share five children. Interestingly, however, they do not have any children together. Their marriage which is now over 20 years has not produced any child so the children that they share are the ones they had from their previous marriages.

Macaluso was married and had three kids before meeting Caridi. His children include Frankie Macaluso, Nicky Macaluso, and Allie Macaluso. Also, during her marriage to Jordan Belfort, Caridi had two kids; a boy and a girl. They are called Chandler Belfort and Carter Belfort. When they got married, Macaluso and Caridi made it their duty to accept each other’s children and take care of them. The children are now all grown up.

It is noteworthy that Jordan Belfort is still very involved in his children’s lives. He has actively professed his love for his kids numerous times before and has shared their images on social media to celebrate them at different times. In September 2021, when his daughter, Chandler Belfort got married to Connor Winter, he attended the important event alongside his ex-wife Caridi as they teamed up as co-parents to their child to ensure things went well during the marriage.

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Who Is John Macaluso’s Wife Nadine Caridi and Why Is She Famous?

Nadine Caridi is a British-American therapist and former model who was born on November 6, 1962. She took interest in modeling since she was still a teenager. Soon after, she began chasing her dreams and eventually started modeling for different brands. She gained some fame when she signed a deal with Miller Coors, a beer brewing company to advertise the alcoholic beverage called Miller Lite.

Her work with Miller Coors gained widespread recognition and Caridi became known as Miller Lite’s poster girl. She also scored numerous features, especially in television commercials, including the Monday Night Football commercials. She is also reported to have advocated for various health campaigns using her growing popularity.

When she was in her mid-20s at the height of her modeling career, Caridi met and fell in love with the popular American entrepreneur, author, speaker, former stockbroker, and convicted felon, Jordan Belfort. They engaged in a whirlwind romance and eventually got married in 1991. Her marriage to Belfort made her even more famous because the businessman was very well-known. Their romance was publicized by different papers and Belfort was showering her with a lot of expensive gifts, including a yacht. He bought the yacht from Coco Chanel and named it Nadine, after Caridi.

However, even though everything seemed fine on the outside, it was not all fine at all inside. This was because Caridi was subjected to some horrific treatments in the marriage. She would later reveal that she suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of Belfort. The experience was too traumatic for her that she eventually decided to call it quits. The couple separated and finally got divorced in 2005. During their marriage, they had two kids called Chandler Belfort and Carter Belfort.

Caridi became really famous after Jordan Belfort’s memoir titled The Wolf of Wall Street, which documented his life and his love story with Caridi, was adapted into a movie and released in 2013. Just like in the memoir, Caridi was well represented in the movie as her life with Belfort was explored for viewers to see. She was portrayed in the movie by Australian actress and producer, Margot Robbie.

When The Wolf of Wall Street was released in 2013, it became very successful, grossing about $392 million and receiving generally positive reviews from critics. The movie was also nominated for several awards, including five at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony. Because of its popularity, the movie which starred popular American actor, and producer, Leonardo DiCaprio (who played Jordan Belfort), made Caridi very famous as people became interested in her life, having seen her story play out in the movie.

Over the years, Nadine Caridi has grown into a more mature and thoughtful woman and today, she has become a therapist who is actively helping people sort through tough times in their lives. She took interest in therapy after her traumatic experience during her marriage to Jordan Belroth and wanted to cultivate a new life of resilience and healing for herself and her family and help ease her mind of the trauma.

Because of this, she went back to school and became a qualified therapist with the help of John Macaluso. She’s now more professionally known as Dr. Nae and is working in private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship expert who is helping others overcome adversity and reach their full potential. She has since gone on to marry John Macaluso and the two have been together for over 20 years, creating their beautiful blended family.

How Old is Nadine Caridi?

Nadine Caridi is presently 61 years old. She was born on the 6th of November 1962 in Britain but grew up in New York City specifically Brooklyn. It is noteworthy that there is an age gap of about 7 years between Nadine Caridi and her husband John Macaluso as Macaluso was born in 1957 and Caridi was born in 1962. However, this clearly does not affect the love they have for each other.

How Nadine Caridi’s Popularity Affected John Macaluso

Before he met and married Nadine Caridi, John Macaluso was already doing very well in his clothing business. However, he did not have a lot of exposure as not many knew about him or his work. However, when he eventually met and became Caridi’s husband, media attention turned on him as many people were interested in knowing who had married Jordan Belfort’s ex-wife.

For the record, when Nadine Caridi and John Macaluso met and got married in 2001, Caridi was already quite well-known as a model but she had not tasted mainstream fame yet. It was only in 2013 after the release of The Wolf of Wall Street that she became more widely known. As for Macaluso, he was also known in some quarters as the CEO of a publicly listed company in 2013.

However, he was not too well known. With the release of the movie and with the way it blew up Nadine Caridi’s popularity, Macaluso was also launched into the spotlight as fans of the movie also began to dig into his life to know more about who the current husband of Jordan Belfort’s ex-wife really is.

John Macaluso Owned A Clothing Company

John Macaluso has accomplished quite a lot in his life. Growing up, he realized he wanted to be a businessman who would create things for people to buy. He later developed a love for making clothes in his 20s and soon started looking for ways to express himself creatively. Eventually, in the 1970s, Macaluso launched a clothing company. It is not clear what the name of this company is but he ran the business for many years and became known within the apparel industry.

According to Macaluso, he ran his apparel-making company for over 30 years and did quite well in the process, making a name for himself as a trusted brand in several circles. When he met Nadine Caridi, he introduced her to the clothing business as well and she was involved on some level. Caridi once revealed that she and Macaluso used to commute to carry out their business together.

Eventually, after more than 30 years of making clothes, John Macaluso decided to retire. He then sold his company in 2008. According to him, he wanted to just sit back and have awesome times with his wife and kids and enjoy his retirement. However, things did not go his way completely because, after a few weeks, his family started urging him to find something else to do and not just stay idle at home.

So, he decided to listen to their advice and started meeting with some of his friends to brainstorm and see what else he can do with himself even after retirement.

He Became CEO Of Wizard World

After he started meeting with friends to look for new opportunities, John Macaluso got in touch with a friend who was affiliated with Wizard World, a publicly listed comic-con company that is focused on bringing comic-book-rooted pop culture to the masses. Macaluso’s friend was involved with the Wizard World conventions and so he invited him to check out a show created by the company and perhaps get involved with the company’s board.

Before this time, Macaluso had never been involved with comic-con events and didn’t know what it was all about. However, when his friend invited him to check out the Wizard World convention, he obliged and was impressed with what he saw. Eventually, the Wizard World event organizers invited him to be on the board of the company and he accepted. It seemed like this was the perfect opportunity for him to express himself in other ways since his retirement from his clothes-making business.

At first, things didn’t work out smoothly for Macaluso because during his first board meeting at Wizard World, he interrupted proceedings too many times because he didn’t understand what was going on so he was asked to leave the board room for a while. He left the room and wondered if he was making a good choice joining the board since he didn’t really understand what was going on.

However, when he returned to the room after some time, he was stunned when the other board members offered him the CEO position of the company and asked him to become the new leader of the company. This was mindblowing for Macaluso because he was not expecting this at all. But, even though he was stunned by this decision, he accepted to become the CEO of Wizard World. This happened in 2012. His family was excited about this development and he was equally excited to learn on the job and lead Wizard World to new heights.

Macaluso Was Exceptional As CEO Of Wizard World

For the record, Wizard World is a company that produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America. These conventions are meant to celebrate graphic novels, comic books, TV shows, movies, gaming, toys, technology, and social networking. The Wizard World events are organized to often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists, and writers. They also include premieres, panels, gaming tournaments, and costume contests.

When John Macaluso became the CEO of Wizard World, he stunned many people when he swiftly moved into action and brought new dimensions to how the company was run. Under his watch, Wizard World more than doubled its number of traveling comic cons and greatly expanded its cadre of A-list celebrity guests. The company events also became one of the most talked-about productions in the comics and entertainment business.

Why He Resigned As CEO Of Wizard World

After his appointment as CEO of Wizard World in 2012, Macaluso remained at the helm of affairs in the company until he eventually resigned from his role as CEO of Wizard World in 2016 after about four years in charge. The resignation was reported by different media outfits.

Talking about why he left the company, Macaluso explained that he wanted to go one direction and the board wanted to go another. So, the differences in their ideologies at the time caused them to go apart. However, he maintained that it was all a mutual thing and there was no animosity during the process.

He Is Now The CEO Of Fandemic Tour

After he resigned as the CEO of Wizard World, John Macaluso soon realized that he missed the convention world a lot so he decided to start his own company. In 2017, he launched his company called Fandemic Tour, which is a pop-culture convention producer meant to, among other things, bring top stars to their fans.

Over the years, Fandemic Tour has become one of the very popular and highly talked-about convention producers in the USA. Huge names like Milo Ventimiglia, Sebastian Stan, John Bernthal, Sean Astin, WWE stars Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins, Michael Rooker, Tom Payne, Bruce Campbell, and many more have been featured on the convention’s tours over the years.

What is John Macaluso’s Net Worth?

Without a doubt, John Macaluso is a wealthy man. He has been actively building his wealth from the ground up over the years and is very well to do. Having owned his own clothing company and, having served as the CEO of the Wizard World company, he is expected to have raked in quite a substantial amount of wealth.

To top that, he is now the CEO of his own convention company, Fandemic Tour, another money-spinning venture for him. The company which he started in 2017 has now become quite a big deal. So what exactly is his net worth at the moment?

Macaluso’s exact net worth has not been authoritatively confirmed at this very moment. However, different reports have pegged his net worth to be between $5 million and $10 million.

Where Is Macaluso Now?

According to some reports, John Macaluso and his family now live in New York from where he runs his business. His wife also runs her own therapy business from there. She has opened a private practice in Glen Cove, a city in New York. She also conducts therapy virtually.

The couple is apparently doing very well in their respective businesses and the future looks very bright for the family.

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Who is Nadine Caridi’s Husband?

Nadine Caridi’s husband is John Macaluso, an American businessman and entrepreneur who formerly served as the CEO of Wizard World, a company that produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America.