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Input: Tiny and slightly stooped, Mrs. Madoff arrived at the interview, held at her sister’s home in Boca Raton , Fla., dressed in cropped white canvas pants and a gray knit top. She spoke in a soft throaty voice, frequently on the edge of tears, about the devastation of her family — and thousands more around the world. 
  
 “It’s so sad,” she said. “Everything that I think about the victims — it’s hard to face, because there’s nothing I can do about any of it.” 
  
 Like so many of those victims, she now has just a thin slice of the life she once had. Turned down by several Manhattan landlords, she lives in a borrowed town house in a gated community in southeast Florida . She is facing litigation and is “afraid to spend a penny.” The damage her husband inflicted on his victims still shocks her, she said — “it was beyond anything imaginable.” 
  
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 But she has slowly rebuilt a life. She worked with children who needed extra emotional support, and now spends up to four days a week as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, where she has a small network of new friends. 
  
 A few things have not changed. Some Madoff victims still accuse her of complicity in the crime — which she denies — and attack her on the Internet or in the media whenever she is mentioned in the news. It has been that way since the day her husband, a respected Wall Street statesman, was arrested for stealing at least $17 billion in cash and $64.8 billion in paper wealth from victims around the world, including many in his extended family. 
  
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 The billions taken from investors largely covered payments to other investors. But some uncounted millions helped support the lavish Madoff lifestyle — yachts, a town house in the south of France , a designer wardrobe, a 10.5-carat diamond, a private jet. Those are all gone, seized to help compensate victims. 
  
 Those treasures don’t figure in Mrs. Madoff’s best memories from “before,” she said. Instead, she spoke about being the mother of two bright, busy boys in suburban Roslyn, N.Y., and spending summers on a small boat with the boys doing chores around the docks. She added, “Those were the years that I cherish more than any others.” 
  
 Mrs. Madoff struggled to explain why she had stood by her husband, a decision that seemed to catalyze the public hostility toward her that persists to this day. Indeed, she and her husband felt so hopeless and embattled in the weeks after his arrest that they tried to commit suicide by swallowing large handfuls of Ambien, she said. 
  
 In an e-mail from prison, Mr. Madoff confirmed that he and his wife “made a feeble attempt” at suicide “while in a severe state of depression . Fortunately, we woke the next morning very sick but alive.” He concluded, “Please understand this is very difficult to admit.” 
  
 She stayed with her husband, she said, because “I come from a generation where marriage meant staying put, for better or for worse. This was agonizing, but I couldn’t abandon the man with whom I spent essentially my entire life.” 
  
 So she visited him a handful of times at a federal prison in Butner, N.C. One visit in 2009 came after the publication of a memoir in which a former Hadassah executive claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Madoff. 
  
 Gathering the doubts of decades — “he was always a flirt,” she said — she confronted her husband in the prison visiting room. 
  
 “I said, ‘Tell me what happened. I can’t stand the thought of you lying to me.’ He said it was totally not true, but I didn’t believe him.” 
  
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 When she finally cut her ties to her husband, it was too late for her son Mark. After his suicide attempt in October 2009, Mark Madoff had begged her to walk away from his father. But she didn’t act quickly enough, she said. On Dec. 10, 2010, the second anniversary of his father’s arrest, Mark Madoff hanged himself. 
  
 One more time, Mrs. Madoff called the prison — to tell her husband that their firstborn was dead. She spoke first to a chaplain, she recalled, near tears. “He got Bernie — he told him before I spoke to him. I could barely get it out.” 
  
 Mrs. Madoff said she was “haunted” by her failure to act soon on her older son’s appeals. “I had no idea it affected Mark so brutally,” she said, tears spilling over. 
  
 That memory determined her response when, early this year, her surviving son, Andrew, asked her to help promote the new book. Despite her lawyer’s opposition and her own fears, she barely hesitated. 
  
 “I wanted to do what he wanted me to do,” she said. “I hadn’t done it in Mark’s case, and I will regret that until my dying day.” 
  
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 Unlike his mother, Andrew Madoff did walk out when his father confessed. But that did not exempt him from the suspicion his mother still faces. 
  
 Like many brothers, Andrew and Mark Madoff were always rivals — Mark was the better athlete, Andrew made better grades. Their first marriages, and subsequent divorces, introduced new tensions into their relationship. At work in their father’s firm, they vied fretfully for his approval. 
  
 But when their father told them on Dec. 10, 2008, that his glittering success was actually an immense Ponzi scheme, the brothers were instantly united. 
  
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 “Every bit of rivalry or anger or anything simply got parked outside,” Andrew Madoff said in a recent interview in the sunny Midtown Manhattan offices of Black Umbrella, an emergency preparedness consulting business founded by his fiancée, Catherine Hooper. 
  
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 “We knew we had to turn him in, but we had no idea how.” 
  
 What they did next made worldwide headlines: they reported their father’s confession to law enforcement officials and he was arrested early the next morning. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. 
  
 Their father’s crime sent them careening toward grievously different destinations. 
  
 When Mark Madoff tried to kill himself in October 2009, his younger brother was furious at what he saw as his brother’s abandonment of his family. During one hospital visit, Andrew angrily told Mark he would no longer be listed as the legal guardian for Andrew’s children. 
  
 He acknowledged his reaction might seem harsh. He explained: “I was very angry at him. I wanted to help him. He wouldn’t really let me, and that was very painful.” 
  
 Until his brother’s suicide, he had not been in regular contact with his mother since before the arrest. “I didn’t really think about my mother or the impact on her.” He and Mark discussed which of them could take her in, he recalled, but never posed the offer to her. 
  
 Before they could, he said, she asked him to sign for his father’s bail. “I was devastated. There was no chance that I was going to sign, and I couldn’t believe that she would ask me to.” 
  
 Like their mother, both Madoff sons were the targets of public accusations that they had been involved in the scheme. 
  
 Ruth and Andrew Madoff deny that, and neither they nor Mark were ever the focus of a criminal investigation. “I would have no way of knowing” about the elaborately concealed fraud, and neither did her sons, Mrs. Madoff said. 
  
 Andrew Madoff, casually dressed for his interview in jeans and a dark sweater, was even more emphatic. “From the beginning, when this whole thing started, I’ve wanted to talk and tell my story.” When Ms. Hooper, his fiancée, suggested he work with Ms. Sandell on an authorized biography, he immediately agreed. 
  
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 Why? “I’m hoping that when people have heard my story, they will judge me a little bit less harshly,” he said. 
  
 Mr. Madoff first learned about his parents’ suicide attempt early this year. “It gave me a little better insight into where she was emotionally when all this came unfolding,” he said. 
  
 He added, “I had hardened myself a little to her within that period.” 
  
 He says he thinks his mother should file for divorce, but she sees that as a meaningless gesture. He also says that working on the book has helped his mother deal with her anger over his father’s betrayals and will make a hostile public more sympathetic. 
  
 Mrs. Madoff doubts that, she said. But she said she would like to emerge with two precious things: She hopes to have sewn together at least some pieces of her tattered family life. And she hopes to feel “that I can walk down the street and hold my head up a little bit.” ||||| Crime, punishment, and the shame of being a Madoff 
  
 In their first interview about the crimes of Bernard Madoff, the son and the wife of the man who scammed billions of dollars provide the first inside account from the immediate family. Ruth Madoff and son Andrew tell Morley Safer how Madoff confessed his crimes to them, their reaction and the subsequent family strife of the past three years. 
  
 When news broke that Bernard Madoff had swindled thousands of people out of billions of dollars, many assumed that his family must have known all along. But Madoff's wife Ruth and son Andrew tell Morley Safer they were blindsided when Madoff finally confessed that he'd been running a giant Ponzi scheme. In their first television interviews, they describe how their once-happy family was completely destroyed. 
  
 The following script is from "Madoff" which aired on Oct. 30, 2011 
  
 Madoff...It is a name that will live in infamy...It's been nearly three years since Bernard Madoff confessed to running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme - the largest financial fraud in history. Thousands of trusting clients who felt safe investing with a financial genius were swindled. He hadn't invested a penny. 
  
 While Madoff is serving 150 years in prison, his family has had to deal with the consequences of his crimes. His wife Ruth, divested of most of her great wealth - and derided by a suspicious world. Their son Mark - dead. Driven to suicide by shame and accusations of guilt. Their other son Andrew isolated - trying to live with the disgrace. 
  
 60 Minutes Overtime: Ruth Madoff: Why she's telling her story 
  
 60 Minutes Overtime: Sons called in FBI to arrest Bernie Madoff 
  
 Are they innocent or were they willing partners? For the first time since Bernie Madoff's arrest, his son Andrew and wife Ruth speak out about crime, punishment and the shame of being a Madoff. 
  
 Morley Safer: It's a tough name to live with. 
  
 Ruth Madoff: It sure is. 
  
 Ruth Madoff... 
  
 Safer: Do you feel the shame? 
  
 Ruth: Of course I feel the shame. I can barely walk down the street without worrying about people recognizing me. 
  
 And Andrew Madoff... 
  
 Andrew Madoff: From the very beginning of this whole episode-- I've had absolutely nothing to hide. And I've been eager, I would say almost desperate to speak out publicly and tell people that I'm absolutely not involved. 
  
 Andrew and Ruth Madoff speak out in the book "Truth and Consequences"- a more or less tell-all arranged by Andrew's fiancee Catherine Hooper. An attempt to separate the family from the father's crimes. 
  
 Safer: Is it dismaying for you that no matter what you say people aren't going to believe you? 
  
 Catherine Hooper: I think in many ways it is dismaying, but public opinion has to be something that doesn't matter to us. What matters to us is the truth. 
  
 Safer: It's really hard for people to believe that you didn't know, that you must have known. 
  
 Ruth: I can't explain it. I mean I trusted him. Why would it ever occur to me that it wasn't legal? The business was--his reputation was almost legendary. Why would I ever think that there was something sinister going on? 
  
 It was 1954 when Ruth Alpern met Bernie Madoff in Queens, N.Y. 
  
 Ruth: I just saw him and I was sort of swept away, I think. 
  
 She married him at age 18. They had two sons - Mark, then Andrew. Bernie was building up his money management business - a typical middle class family living on Long Island. 
  
 Ruth: We were both solid parents and valued our family and so proud of our boys. It was a dream, really. 
  
 Andrew: My father was certainly present as a dad. 
  
 Safer: Did he emphasize moral values at all? 
  
 Andrew: I wouldn't say that we sort of explicitly discussed values. But we certainly lived what I felt was a moral life, where there was a clear sense of right and wrong. 
  
  
  
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Output:
Almost three years ago, Bernie Madoff turned to his wife and said, “I have a confession to make: I’ve been running a Ponzi scheme,” Ruth Madoff recalled on 60 Minutes last night. Son Andrew remembers his mother’s response: “What’s a Ponzi scheme?” Once she realized what was going on, however, Ruth says she was “paralyzed” and remembers little more of what her husband said. Brother Mark, who later committed suicide, “stormed out of the room,” Andrew says; even so, Bernie then went back to his office and, later that night, brought his wife to a company holiday party. The next morning, the FBI took him away. Prior to Bernie’s confession, the family had no idea. “Why would I ever think that there was something sinister going on?” Ruth says. “I mean, I trusted him.” She has not spoken to her husband since Mark’s suicide, and Andrew says he will never forgive his father. In a separate New York Times interview, also timed to coincide with today’s release of the authorized family biography, Ruth recalls another hurt: her husband’s rumored affair. She confronted him about it in prison. “He said it was totally not true,” she says, “but I didn’t believe him.” Click for the book's biggest revelations.