

‘You wanna know how to get people to trust you with their money? I’ll tell you right now. You present it as an exclusive thing, an elite club for the chosen few — of course thats just the hook. Nothing on Earth makes people want something more than telling them they can’t have it. You play hard to get. You make them sweat. And then — once they’re in — you make them feel safe.” That’s the voiceover that kicked off ABC’s miniseries, Madoff.
Who exactly is Bernie Madoff? The man who committed fraud, sure, but what exactly went down nearly ten years ago that left him off of the news and behind bars? Well, Richard Dreyfuss will be taking on the role for ABC’s special, along side Blythe Danner, who portrays (very well, I might add), Ruth Madoff.
Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer have stepped into their new HBO film, Wizard of Lies, which has been described as a behind the scenes look at Bernie Madoff‘s Ponzi scheme, how the public portrayed it, and how it affected his family, as well as the victims. In the first photo, Michelle takes on Ruth Madoff, looking unrecognizable and supportive behind her monogrammed-slipper-wearing husband.
Andrew Madoff, son of the infamous Bernie Madoff — who became the most hated man in the country after defrauding thousands of people in the largest ponzi scheme in history — died of cancer on Sept. 3 in a New York City hospital.
When Bernie Madoff‘s Ponzi scheme was first revealed, his wife Ruth Madoff tells 60 Minutes in a new interview, she and her husband were so inundated with hate that they decided to kill themselves on Christmas Eve 2008. “It was so horrendous what was happening,” Ruth says in a segment that will air Oct. 30 on CBS. “We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said ‘…I just can’t go on anymore.'”
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Stephenie Madoff Mack — whose husband Mark Madoff killed himself after his father Bernie Madoff was sent to federal prison for embezzling billions of dollars in the biggest Ponzi scheme to date — read a letter she wrote to her father-in-law on The View and proclaimed she could never forgive him!
Ruth Madoff, wife of disgraced ponzi scheme ring leader Bernie Madoff, is thinking about leaving her husband in the dust. New reports from Fox News and CBS claim Ruth, 70, is so devastated that she was turned away from her eldest son Mark’s funeral in December, that she is considering taking a reported ultimatum from her remaining son Andrew: it’s either dad or us.