Ruth Madoff, the wife of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, revealed to CBS News that she and her husband were so deeply upset by the multi-million fraud that they planned to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in 2008.

Ruth said that she and her husband took Ambien and Klonopin, not mixing it with alcohol because they were afraid to vomit the pills.

In an interview with Morley Safer of CBS News, she said:

“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening. We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said ‘…I just can’t go on anymore. We took pills and woke up the next day… It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up.”

Bernie, 73, is currently serving a 150-year sentence for fraud in a federal prison in North Carolina.

Just recently, their daughter-in-law Stephanie released a book showing how angry she is with the Madoffs.

Do you believe this story that the couple attempted suicide together?

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Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff has lost yet another thing during his lengthy incarceration for the complicated, long con he ran on investors that cost many their life savings.

Wife Ruth has not been to visit her jailed spouse at all this year, and sources with inside information on the Madoff family say the suicide of son Mark in December was the turning point for Ruth. Just after Mark’s body was discovered around Christmas in his downtown Manhattan apartment- where he had been staying alone with his toddler, who was unharmed- a lawyer for the younger Madoff said in a statement his client was an “innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo.”

It appears that Ruth’s abandonment of Bernie is a last-ditch effort to salvage her relationship with her remaining son while she can. A Madoff biographer commented on Mrs. Madoff’s decision and said that Ruth’s dedication to her husband was the cause of strife between the not-jailed Madoffs. Diana Henriques, author of Bernie Madoff: The Wizard of Lies said:

“Ruth has not seen Bernie since Mark’s suicide and I think the remnants of the family will now pull together… Ruth visiting him in prison was a major impediment to her being reconciled with them.”

The Madoffs have been married for 52 years. Bernie Madoff met his wife in high school in the fifties, and the pair married in 1959. Bernie Madoff is now 73, and serving a 150 year long sentence in a North Carolina prison.

Madoff Dumped by Wife Ruth, Not Divorced Though is a post from: The Inquisitr

Ruth Madoff was escorted from her posh Manhattan penthouse today by federal marshals, the New York Daily News is reporting.

Mrs. Madoff, who has reverted to her maiden name Alpern in an unsuccessful bid to find an apartment, reportedly surrendered all the property inside. Five federal marshals took possession of the home just before noon today and are in the process of cataloguing its contents. Ruth has lived in the $7m Upper East Side Duplex for decades with her husband, Bernie Madoff, who is currently serving a sentence of 150 years for his infamous Ponzi scheme.

Ruth Madoff relinquished all claim to the $70m in funds that were in her name, and denied any knowledge of her husband’s schemes. Don’t feel too bad for her, in case you were going to- she was allowed to keep $2.5m in cash in the deal she cut with the Justice Department.

Ruth Madoff now homeless is a post from: The Inquisitr