Ivan Boesky, Inside Trader and Inspiration for Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street,’ Dies at 87

Ivan Boesky, the infamous inside trader who at least partially inspired the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, died on Monday, his daughter confirmed. He was 87.

Marianne Boesky told CNN her father died in his sleep, but did not share additional details about his cause of death. In an Instagram post, she called him a “dedicated and loving father above all else.”

Boesky’s name became synonymous with financial greed in the 1980s, when, after making hundreds of millions by working on Wall Street, he told business school graduates University of California, Berkeley, that “greed is healthy.”

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