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Even so, the charges may have already shattered the careers of the two cosmopolitan go-getters. Merrill Lynch promptly fired Vaskevitch, citing his failure to give the company an explanation of the SEC's charges. The son of a wealthy Israeli tobacco trader, Vaskevitch had already risen to head a merger operation for a British investment house by age 30, when he joined Merrill Lynch in 1981. He quickly became Merrill's top international mergermaker and lived accordingly in a $2.4 million London home filled with antique furniture...
...ever wanted," notes Bruce Vilanch, who writes Bette's "Soph" jokes, "things she didn't even realize she wanted and didn't set out to get." Two things, anyway: a doting husband as dotty as she is and a three-month-daughter. Of Martin von Haselberg, 38, a commodities trader who has cavorted as a performance artist under the name Harry Kipper, Midler declares, "He sees to the heart of things. He respects and supports what I do. And he leads me, too, when I lose my way." Now listen to the new mom, 41, on the subject of Sophie...
...last week by the spectacle of another once powerful Wall Streeter getting a prison sentence. Dennis Levine, a former managing director at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm who broke open the scandal last year by implicating Boesky, drew a term of two years, making him the fourth insider trader this year who will do hard time. Levine had faced as much as 20 years on four counts of securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before the sentencing...
...mesmerized the financial community was the severe public handling of the allegedly guilty trio. All three were handcuffed at some point during the arrest process. Members of the financial community speculated that the dramatic arrests might have been inspired by a previous outcry against kid-gloves handling of Insider Trader Boesky. The highflying arbitrager, who had to pay a settlement of $100 million, was allowed to sell off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stock from his firm's trading accounts before his misdeeds were made known. To many Wall Streeters, it almost seemed as if Boesky had profited...
...commission members flew off one Wednesday to Paris and interviewed Arms Trader Manucher Ghorbanifar for more than five hours in the elegant chambers of the Hotel Plaza Athenee. Then they walked down the avenue a few blocks to see Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi sybarite, in the pillowed splendor of his apartment...