Ivan Boesky, the one-time Wall Street tycoon, convicted fraudster and inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in "Wall Street" died Monday in his California home, his family confirmed.

Ivan Boesky, a one-time Wall Street titan-turned convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street," has died at the age of 87. Though he denied ever saying ...

Back in 1987, a movie called “Wall Street” featured a character named Gordon Gekko, who preached a gospel called “Greed is Good.” He sacrificed everything to make money – yes, he was ...

a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out ...

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The Fifth Ave home of the late philanthropist Carroll Petrie has been sold to Wall Street billionaire James Tomilson Hill, vice chairman of the Blackstone Group hedge fund the Real Deal reports.

Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Stone, Douglas, and Sheen (for a brief cameo) reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which was released ...

The man who inspired the character of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street is Wall Street legend Carl Icahn. Icahn is known as a corporate raider and as a shareholder activist.

The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s. (JTA) — Ivan Boesky, a financier whose role in an illegal insider trading ...

On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko ...