Do You Blame Bernie Madoff in His Son's Suicide?
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2010/12/13 17:00:00
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It has all the elements of a Shakespearean tragedy. A patriarch driven by his fatal flaw (greed) ruins his family and pays the ultimate price when his son takes his own life.
And while people aren't really feeling sorry for Bernie Madoff -- the con artist who defrauded investors of billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history -- in the aftermath of his 46-year-old son Mark's suicide this weekend, many have been struck by the horror of the young family man's death.
According to the New York Post, Bernie's wife Ruth is "totally disgusted with [Bernie] and blames him for her son's death. She thinks this is the end of the family," biographer Jerry Oppenheimer said.
Mark hung himself Saturday with a dog leash from a steel pipe in the living room of his downtown Manhattan loft, exactly two years after he and his brother Andrew reported their father to authorities. Mark's 2-year-old son was sleeping in his bedroom at the time; his wife Stephanie was vacationing at Disney World with their 4-year-old daughter, Audrey.
Neither Mark nor his brother Andrew have been charged in the fraud case. Both claim they didn't know about the Ponzi scheme until their father confessed just before they reported him.
But Mark was and still is a target of lawsuits naming him and his four children (two from a previous marriage) in an effort to recover some of the lost money. He was also reportedly becoming increasingly depressed as he struggled to find work on Wall Street.
Time will tell if Mark was in on the plot. But regardless of his last name, this story mostly hits home as the tragic suicide of a young father who couldn't seem to find work. We might not relate to Madoff, but most of us can relate to Mark.
And while people aren't really feeling sorry for Bernie Madoff -- the con artist who defrauded investors of billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history -- in the aftermath of his 46-year-old son Mark's suicide this weekend, many have been struck by the horror of the young family man's death.
According to the New York Post, Bernie's wife Ruth is "totally disgusted with [Bernie] and blames him for her son's death. She thinks this is the end of the family," biographer Jerry Oppenheimer said.
Mark hung himself Saturday with a dog leash from a steel pipe in the living room of his downtown Manhattan loft, exactly two years after he and his brother Andrew reported their father to authorities. Mark's 2-year-old son was sleeping in his bedroom at the time; his wife Stephanie was vacationing at Disney World with their 4-year-old daughter, Audrey.
Neither Mark nor his brother Andrew have been charged in the fraud case. Both claim they didn't know about the Ponzi scheme until their father confessed just before they reported him.
But Mark was and still is a target of lawsuits naming him and his four children (two from a previous marriage) in an effort to recover some of the lost money. He was also reportedly becoming increasingly depressed as he struggled to find work on Wall Street.
Time will tell if Mark was in on the plot. But regardless of his last name, this story mostly hits home as the tragic suicide of a young father who couldn't seem to find work. We might not relate to Madoff, but most of us can relate to Mark.
Read More: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/ruth_...
Then you have the son. He has to live w/ his shame, death threats, jail time maybe, his kids are hated, his wife insulted..the list goes on.
Bernie did what he did--and everybody suffered b/c of him. The son could not take the pain. The pain his father caused everybody, including his own family.
I know Bernie blames himself. He should. He caused the pain. the sob...
Tragic for the whole family.
Try telling the E.R. you don't want a Jew doctor helping you.-you'll die faster.
And btw..if you're a Christian, you worship a Jew.
NO HE SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED, THE PEOPLE WHO MURDERED HIS SON AND CALLED IT A SUICIDE SHOULD AND WILL B BLAMED FOR THIS MAN'S DEATH.
SUICIDE IS A WEAK, COWARDLY WAY TO GO AND MARK AND HIS BROTHER PROVED THEY WERE NOT COWARDS BY WHISTLE BLOWING ON THEIR OWN FATHER.
THIS WAS A HIT JUST LIKE WITH DAVID CARRINGTON...
STOP BELIEVING ANYTHING THE NEWS REPORTS THESE DAYS AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. WHY WOULD HE KILL HIMSELF FOR LACK OF WORK. THERE ARE PROBABLY BOOK AND MOVIE DEALS LINING UP FOR THIS FAMILY.
THE MOTHER WAS ONLY "I AM A CELEBRITY..........." BEFORE THE TRIAL.
WAKE UP PEOPLE***WHO AT THE TOP SUFFERED BECAUSE THE PONZI SCHEME WAS EXPOSED BY THE SONS. ANDREW NEED TO WATCH HIS BACK ALSO OR HIGHER SECURITY FOR HIMSELF, SOMEONE HE KNOWS AND WHOM HE CAN TRUST. THIS FAMILY DRAMA IS NOT OVER YET, NOT BY A LONG SHOT!!!
Our family has dealth with a suicide so we know what it can do to a family. The children get cheated out of a parent and the husband/wife usually share some of the blame. It's a very selfish thing to do but nontheless, very sad indeed......
partly responsible
life is odd, great gift never to discard like this
It could also be that he feels guilty. As I remember he and his brother were the ones who turned his father in.
But either way, he made the decision himself. I wish he could have found a way to live and maybe do some good in this world to make up for what his father did.
Parents really impact their children's lives, and sometimes they don't find out till later how their own personal defects have impacted their children and made life miserable for them. We never want to hurt our children, but somehow we do. Then it's their burden to carry and hopefully heal, recover, and build something positive in their lives. I've experienced this as a daughter and as a mother. Life is interesting.