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    Bernie Madoff

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    Date of Birth:
    April 29, 1938
    Hometown:
    Queens

    Bio:
    Bernie Madoff (born Bernard Lawrence “Bernie” Madoff in Queens, NY on April 29, 1938) was a stockbroker, who ran a billion-dollar firm. He attended University of Alabama, then transferred to Hofstra University, earning a degree in political science. After saving up $5,000 from a lifeguard job, and $50,000 borrowed from his wife’s parents, they founded an investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC. They quickly had a celebrity-filled client list (Kevin Bacon, Steven Spielberg, etc.). By the end of 1989, he firm was a front-runner in the trading volume on the New York Stock exchange. In 2008, his sons went to the police reporting that everything their father had done was a lie — and that it was all a Ponzi scheme. He was arrested one day later and admitted to losing $50 billion of his investors’ money. He pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison and was sent to Butner Federal Correction Complex in North Carolina.

    Best Known For:
    Bernie Madoff is best known as a stockbroker that ran — and was caught running — an elaborate Ponzi scheme in 2008.

    Personal Life:
    Bernie Madoff met Ruth in high school, and they married in 1959. He was attending Hofstra University in Long Island while she was in Queens. They had two children, Andrew and Mark. Two years after he went to prison to the day, in 2010, Mark committed suicide in his home. Then four years later, Andrew passed away from cancer. In 2014, Bernie had a heart attack in prison and was reportedly diagnosed with stage four kidney disease.

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    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.

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    Bernie’s last living son, Andrew Madoff, put up a brave fight but the 48 year old ultimately lost his battle with cancer on Sept. 3. So incredibly sad.

    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.

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    Bernie and Ruth Madoff made a suicide pact in Dec. 2008, which she now calls ‘impulsive.’ She’s also ‘glad’ they both survived.

    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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    The daughter-in-law of Bernie Madoff will never forgive him for her husband Mark Madoff’s suicide!

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    Ruth is reportedly so upset that her only living son has shunned her that she’s willing to divorce the man she married at 18 — should she do it?

    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.

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