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.

(JTA) — Ivan Boesky, a financier whose role in an illegal insider trading scheme in the go-go 1980s sent shockwaves through a Jewish community to which he had been a generous donor, died Monday.

Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.