Ruth Madoff


Ruth Madoff facing $45m lawsuit

A trustee attempting to recover money for investors duped by Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is suing his wife, Ruth Madoff, for $44.8 million, claiming that although she wasn’t implicated in the fraud, she reaped the profits with a life of luxury.

What did Ruth Madoff ever do to you?

With no PR advice aside from her lawyers’, Bernie Madoff’s wife Ruth has been maligned more than any other Wall Street criminal’s wife in memory, writes Sheelah Kolhatkar. But is it justified?