Ivan Boesky, epitome of Wall Street trading scandal, dies at 87 Audacious and extravagant, Mr. Boesky helped inspire Hollywood’s fictional financial mogul Gordon Gekko and his greed-is-good mantra.

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. He ...

Ivan Boesky, a high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur in the 1980s who was convicted in an insider-trading scandal that defined the era, has died.

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 ...

An inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the movie “Wall Street,” he made a fortune from insider trading before his downfall brought a crashing end to a decade of greed.

Ivan Boesky, a onetime 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.

Ivan Boesky, financier whose downfall led to a Jewish communal reckoning, dies at 87 The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s.

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, 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.

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. He ...