[NY Post] Every morning, the petite blonde with the bright red lipstick walks the few blocks from her nondescript condo to the Upper Crust Bagel Company on Sound Beach Avenue, the main drag in this picturesque New England hamlet of 6,600 people.
Just about everyone who lives here knows it’s Ruth Madoff in exile, and they mostly leave her alone.
They know the broad outlines of her fall -- how her privileged world exploded in December 2008 when her husband, Bernie, confessed to the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, an $18 billion fraud for which he is serving a 150-year sentence.
Ruth lost everything -- her money, social status, husband and her two sons. Mark, the eldest, committed suicide in 2010, and Andrew died of cancer in 2014.
Ruth will turn 76 this week, two days before HBO airs "Wizard of Lies," a dramatic retelling of the fall of the house of Madoff, starring Robert de Niro as Bernie and Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth. |