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  2. Investor who inspired infamous ‘Wall Street’ Gordon Gecko ...

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    Boesky died on 20 May, 2024, aged 87. (1987 AP) Ivan F Boesky, the infamous Wall Street trader who inspired Michael Douglas ‘s Gordon Gecko character in the movie Wall Street, has died at the ...

  3. Ivan Boesky, inspiration for 'Wall Street' villain Gordon ...

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    Born in Detroit, Boesky moved to New York City in the mid-1960s after graduating law school and found work on Wall Street. He eventually used money from the estate of his then-wife's family to ...

  4. Gordon Gekko - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Gekko is a composite character in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, [2] both directed by Oliver Stone. [3] Gekko was portrayed in both films by actor Michael Douglas , who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the first film. [ 4 ]

  5. Wall Street (1987 film) - Wikipedia

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    Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

  6. Michael Douglas: Gordon Gekko would be ‘ecstatic’ about the ...

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    Michael Douglas says today’s political climate — and the role money plays in it — would make Gordon Gekko absolutely giddy. The “Wall Street” actor, who famously played the devious ...

  7. Asher Edelman - Wikipedia

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    The character of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street was based in part on Edelman. [4] In 1988, he moved to Switzerland and founded a contemporary art museum in Pully, near Lausanne. The FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain launched the first European retrospective exhibitions of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, and Peter Halley.

  8. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Wikipedia

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    Gekko claims he worked, from prison, to get the best therapists and even paid off a drug dealer to stop selling to Rudy, who died from an overdose. Winnie forgives him. As the financial crisis accelerates, James and Church's chairman Julius Steinhardt advise federal regulators to buy their multi-billion-dollar subprime loans .

  9. Financier Asher Edelman: Gordon Gekko isn't back, but I'm ...

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