Salon.com > Ruth Madoff http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Should we feel sorry for Ruth Madoff? http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/should_we_feel_sorry_for_ruth_madoff/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/should_we_feel_sorry_for_ruth_madoff/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10159759 Ruth Madoff couldn't have more ironic timing. With the Occupy movement swelling to global proportions and wealth inequity making revolutionaries out of the fed-up bottom 99 percent , the wife of the man whose name has become synonymous with "greedy dirtbag" has been awkwardly making the rounds -- and attracting harsh criticism along the way. Shilling for journalist Laurie Sandell's new biography of her family, Madoff and son Andrew made an emotional, hotly anticipated appearance on Sunday's "60 Minutes." But will a disgusted American public feel pity for a family whose lavish lifestyle was paid for by devastating duplicity?

Both in the book "Truth and Consequences," which hits stores today, and on "60 Minutes," Ruth Madoff insists that she was "absolutely not involved" in the Ponzi scheme that wiped out billions and became the largest financial fraud in history. And she explained to an incredulous Morley Safer why she stood by a husband who's serving 150 years in prison and discussed the sleeping-pill suicide attempt she claims the couple made on Christmas Eve 2008, as their empire was collapsing. "We had terrible phone calls," she says. "Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said, 'I just can't go on anymore.'"

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