In a nod to his idol, Mr Wilson renamed several of his previous failed ventures after fictional businesses in the movie Wall Street and its sequel Money Never Sleeps just days before they were put into external administration in 2015.
Poster for the hit 1987 film.
Two of the collapsing companies in his Mider property group were named after Anacott Steel and Teldar Paper, stocks that Michael Douglas’ character manipulated as part of an insider-trading scam and hostile takeover in the hit 1987 film.
Others were rebranded Churchill Scwartz [sic] and Keller Zabel, the investment banks portrayed in the sequel.
This apparent mimicking of Gekko was raised in the Supreme Court during a lawsuit relating to the businesses, where Mr Wilson’s actions …
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