F. Ross Johnson, right, in 1982, when he was president of Nabisco, with Robert Schaeberle, the company's chief executive at the time. Credit Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times. F. Ross Johnson, who as chief executive of RJR Nabisco instigated an ...

F. Ross Johnson, the RJR Nabisco Inc. chief executive officer whose efforts to take the company private in the 1980s led to the then-largest takeover in Wall Street history chronicled in the best-selling book “Barbarians at the Gate,” died Dec. 29 at ...

F. Ross Johnson, the former top executive of RJR Nabisco and perhaps the most vilified businessman in local history, died Thursday of pneumonia at age 85. Johnson's death was confirmed by a spokesman, multiple media outlets reported Saturday. Johnson ...

NEW YORK ― F. Ross Johnson, the former RJR Nabisco CEO depicted as the epitome of corporate greed in the bestselling book and movie Barbarians at the Gate, has died. He was 85. The Aycock-Riverside Funeral and Cremation Center in Jupiter, Fla., ...

F Ross Johnson, the colourful businessman whose profligate spending and involvement in one of the most high-profile buyouts of the 1980s made him for many a symbol of the decade's excess and ambition, has died aged 85.

F. Ross Johnson, whose reign as chief executive of RJR Nabisco Co. became a symbol of corporate greed in the late 1980s, died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in Jupiter, Fla., a spokesman said. He was 85 years old. Mr. Johnson's fame spread beyond ...

(Rob O'Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP). In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Evalena Worthington, costumed as a pirate wench, practices being lowered from the mast of the sailing vessel America 2.0 outsid.