Glynn tagged seven of the more infamous one percenters in film and fiction.
One entry on his list:
Read about the other one percenters on the list.[One] great Victorian one percenter is Augustus Melmotte, the financial speculator in Anthony Trollope’s novel The Way We Live Now (1875). Melmotte seduces London high society with his promise of a new railway system running from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico, but the project never materializes and the financier is revealed as a fraud. Today, comparisons are sometimes drawn between Trollope’s Melmotte and Bernie Madoff.
The Way We Live Now is on John Mullan's list of ten of the best scenes on London Underground.
--Marshal Zeringue