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 crashing ...
Ivan F. Boesky, the disgraced 1980s financier who inspired the cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko character of Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street, died in his sleep today at his home in ...