{"id":3416,"date":"2024-05-22T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:51:43","slug":"ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Boesky, inspiration for \u2018Wall Street\u2019 villain Gordon Gekko, dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=''>Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film &#8216;Wall Street,&#8217; has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p class=''>Though he denied ever saying it, contemporary accounts reported Boesky extolling the virtues of avarice in a commencement speech at the University of California Berkeley in 1986.<\/p>\n<div id='taboolaReadMoreBelow'><\/div>\n<p class=''>\u201cI think greed is healthy,&#8217; Boesky reportedly said. \u201cYou can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=''>At that point, he was seen as a money-making visionary for his seeming ability to predict business mergers. <\/p>\n<p class=''>By the end of that year, Boesky had been charged with insider trading, having made lucrative stock bets based on illicit access to proprietary information. <\/p>\n<p class=''>As it turned out, Boesky was sending literal briefcases full of cash to an insider at a well-known Wall Street firm in exchange for tips about acquisition activity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film &#8216;Wall Street,&#8217; has died at the age of 87. Though he denied ever saying it, contemporary accounts reported Boesky extolling the virtues of avarice in a commencement speech at the University of California Berkeley in 1986. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}