The tortured and wounded victim escaped John Woeltz's house of horrors in an ordeal authorities described as “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “American Psycho."

Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one charge each of kidnapping, imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm after police claim he kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist in New York City.

A 37-year-old Kentucky man, known by some as the "crypto king of Kentucky," was charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man, accused of holding him captive inside a posh, six-story townhouse in Nolita for weeks in an attempt to get the man's Bitcoin password,