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Ruth Madoff Seen...At A Supermarket
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 16, 2011
Modified Feb 16, 2011
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Ruth Madoff's dramatic lifestyle downgrade from her fancy Park Avenue duplex and Montauk and Palm Beach vacation homes was symbolized by a Post photographer seeing her ride the F train. Now Inside Edition has added to the gallery of what the Ponzi schemer's wife has been reduced to, besides dyeing her hair and being snubbed from her son's memorial service: Grocery shopping in Florida.
Inside Edition says, "Ruth seems to be living a much less glamorous life than her luxurious days of butlers and chauffeurs. Now she can be seen doing her own grocery shopping, picking up dry cleaning and driving around in her 15-year-old car." Well, she can sit easy because husband Bernard Madoff insisted to the NY Times that none of his relatives knew anything about his multi-billion dollar scheme to fake out investors.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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