Ivan Boesky, the infamous insider trader whose name became synonymous with financial greed and helped inspire the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film “Wall Street,” has died at ...

By Leslie Wayne Ivan F. Boesky, the brash financier who came to symbolize Wall Street greed as a central figure of the 1980s insider trading scandals, and who went to prison for his misdeeds ...

Ivan Boesky, who reached the pinnacle of fame and fortune as a high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur in the 1980s only to be exposed as a cheat in the insider-trading scandal that defined the era ...

Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan who personified the excesses of the 1980s — helping inspire Hollywood’s fictional mogul Gordon Gekko and his greed-is-good mantra — but who came to a ...

Ivan Boesky; Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in 'Wall Street' (1987) Getty Images/Everett Ivan F. Boesky, the disgraced 1980s financier who inspired the cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko ...

Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.

Ivan Boesky, who went to prison and paid a record $100 million fine for a sprawling insider-trading scandal, becoming a symbol of extravagance and corruption on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.

May 20 (Reuters) - Ivan Boesky, the financier who gave birth to the "greed is good" mantra before going to prison in one of the biggest Wall Street insider trading scandals of the 1980s ...