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Ruth Madoff ( / ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-doff; [1] née Alpern; born May 18, 1941) [2] is the widow of Bernie Madoff, the convicted American financial fraudster who served a prison sentence for a criminal financial scheme until his death in April 2021. After her husband's arrest for his fraud, she and her husband attempted suicide in 2008.
Even though Ruth Madoff understood her husband was a criminal, she couldn’t just immediately stop loving him or let him go, driving the couple to make a suicide pact in an attempt to avoid facing the truth. They both actually consumed “a bunch of” sleeping pills on Christmas Eve 2008 to get the job done as painlessly as possible, yet awoke the following morning without any medical issues, per se.
Ruth Madoff went out of the public eye following her husband's incarceration. After the death of both of her sons, Ruth has continued to stay out of the public eye, keeping a low profile. She admitted that she and her husband were so upset in the immediate aftermath of their being exposed for financial fraud that they attempted to kill themselves through an overdose of pills, including Ambien and Klonopin.
Ruth Madoff is escorted by private security as she leaves the Metropolitan Correctional Center after visiting her husband disgraced financier Bernard Madoff on April 6, 2009. Mary Altaffer / AP...
Ruth Madoff, now 79, was never charged in her husband's scheme. She never divorced him either, despite distancing herself from the Ponzi king in public. In a 2011 "TODAY" interview with her...
Ruth Madoff is finally living in style again — sharing a $3.8 million, waterfront mansion in Connecticut. Robert Miller Ruth, who dropped any claim to about $80 million in assets held by her...
Wife Ruth Madoff Bernie’s widow may have lost access to her husband’s $27 million private jet and 88-foot megayacht, but she continues to live a materially comfortable life. Bernie Madoff’s...
Ruth Madoff, 81, lives with Susan Elkin, her late son’s ex-wife, in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The lavish $3.8 million waterfront mansion has about 4,000 square feet of living space, a private dock, and two fireplaces. Ruth reportedly moved in with Susan to get closer to her grandchildren.
Ruth Madoff Turned Away At Son Mark Madoff's Memorial. Ruth Madoff flew to Connecticut to be at her son's memorial service, but Mark Madoff's grieving widow would have none of it. A source tells People that Stephanie Madoff barred Ruth from coming to the memorial, after her husband Mark committed suicide in December.
THE widow of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is reportedly living in a $3.8million waterfront house in Connecticut with her former daughter-in-law. Ruth Madoff, 79, moved in September to the four-bedroom house in Swan Lucas Point in Old Greenwich, according to the New York Post.