The wife of the biggest Ponzi schemer in history claims she had no knowledge of what her husband – whom she’s since disowned but not divorced – did as chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC yet was involved in attempting to transfer assets in the days prior to his arrest. Of the 2008 scandal, in 2012, she stated: “I lost a son whom I loved dearly. I don’t talk to Bernie anymore, and I find it so hard to reconcile my feelings for the man I was married to for over 50 years”. Ruth Madoff subsequently moved to a house owned by her other son – who then died in 2014 – in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
Two stories to keep beside you
Judy Taubman (previously Judith Mazor Rounick, née Jehudit Mazor)
The widow of the disgraced and briefly jailed owner of Sotheby’s, A. Alfred Taubman (1924 – 2015), found herself back in the news in September 2014 after a very public spat with her stepchildren. The Roll Call – SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES
Lady Joan Oliphant Fraser
She wrote a book called The Champagne Diet and is often spotted in Pimlico. A partying sort, Oliphant Fraser is regularly found at London events and is never without a glass of her favourite tipple. Cheers not beers are the order of her life.
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She got away with it. The shameless hussy!!!!!!!! Bin her.