Madoff 'Cheated on Wife, Too'

Ponzi schemer linked to exec assistant at media firm: insider
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 29, 2009 11:08 AM CDT
Madoff 'Cheated on Wife, Too'
The building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth own a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view on Sunday, March 22, 2009.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

His investors may not have been the only ones Bernie Madoff cheated: sources tell the New York Daily News that the Ponzi schemer had at least one extramarital affair . He was involved with an executive assistant at a big media firm "eight or nine years ago," one insider tells the News. “He was quite generous with her. He used to fly her around,” the source said. Ruth Madoff found out and “kept him on a short leash after that,” said another.
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