Who ran New York’s underbelly in the 1920s? Nope, not Michael Corleone, but a Jewish gangster and racketeer named Arnold Rothstein. Rothstein, who inspired The Great Gatsby‘s uncomfortably ...

In India, he's bigger than Clooney and Cruise. Maybe that was why The Great Gatsby producers chose Amitabh Bachchan to play shady Jewish mobster Meyer Wolfsheim. Despite the bit part, Bachchan ...

Fitzgerald used the real-life Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein as the inspiration for Jay Gatsby's crooked associate Wolfsheim. At one point, Gatsby says to narrator Nick Carraway, "He's the man ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald proclaimed his distaste for Jews with his clichéd portrait of gangster Meyer Wolfsheim in his Jazz Age opus “The Great Gatsby.”The crucial but peripheral character is ...

How the Great Gatsby could afford ... "Jay Gatsby was probably either living paycheck-to-paycheck or ... more to the point, someone — out: Meyer Wolfsheim, the gangster bankrolling Gatsby.

The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations.