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.

Boesky would go to prison in a scandal so brazen that he became the inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko in the seminal film “Wall Street.” Boesky’s 1986 guilty plea to insider ...

Greed is like cancer that, when left untreated, can destroy individuals, families, businesses, governments and economies. Greed makes financially ignorant people putty in the hands of the consumer ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jerry Springer, boy bands, frosted tips and Wall Street greed may come to mind -- priceless automotive engineering might not ...

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 ...

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 ...