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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco Highlight

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“They’re the heads of Merrill Lynch, Shearson Lehman, and all the other big brokerages. In walks a hooker. It’s Milken. The debutantes wouldn’t have anything to do with a woman who sells her body for a hundred dollars a night. But this hooker is different. She makes a million dollars a night. Pretty soon, what have you got? Eleven hookers.”

— Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Replicated under Fair Use from Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. (Pg. 239)