Today, Leonardo DiCaprio lives a life full of private jets, beautiful women and expensive champagne -- and not just on-screen. But growing up, the Wolf of Wall Street star saw a darker side of Hollywood as a "very poor" kid living in a dangerous L.A. neighborhood filled with junkies and prostitutes. Now, for the first time, DiCaprio is shedding light on his dark past in a new interview.

DiCaprio's childhood neighborhood near Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue had "a major prostitution ring on my street corner, crime and violence everywhere," he told the LA