Catherine Hooper
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Catherine Hooper is an American entrepreneur who was engaged to Andrew Madoff.[1]
Catherine Hooper grew up in upstate New York.[2] She was working at a store that sold high-end fishing tackle when she met Madoff.[1]
She moved in with Madoff in late 2008, shortly before Andrew's father, Bernie Madoff, confessed that he had created a huge Ponzi scheme.[3]
In 2011, publisher Little, Brown & Company said its fall release schedule included a book chronicling "the private life story of one of the most controversial figures of our time". After a leak appeared to reveal that Catherine Hooper and Laurie Sandell were the book's co-authors, members of the publishing community assumed the book was about Bernie Madoff. When "Truth and Consequence: Life in the Madoff Family" was published, Sandell was the only credited author.
Madoff helped Catherine Hooper create Black Umbrella, an organization that helped people organize after disasters 4 .
Madoff was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 , but was in remission . He started cancer treatment again, after relapsing in 2011 . He had a stem cell transplant in mid-2014 and his recovery looked promising, until he died of sudden complications in September 2014 .
Madoff's estate was nominally worth $ 16 million . He had tried to set up a trust fund that was to pay Catherine Hooper $50,000 a month. However, Irving Picard , the bankruptcy trustee fighting to recover money from Bernie Madoff's defrauded clients, has his funds tied up. Catherine Hooper said when Madoff died she quickly downsized her apartment to a smaller 46m², where she and her daughter shared a bunk bed.
Catherine Hooper was played by Lily Rabe in the film The Wizard of Lies (2017) 6 .
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jerry Oppenheimer. Madoff with the Money. https://books.google.com/books?id=-pC06llkznwC&q=%22Catherine+Hooper%22+madoff. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ↑ Laurie Sandell. "Loving a Madoff". Marie Claire magazine. https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a6817/laurie-sandell-on-madoff/. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ↑ Julie Bosman (2011-07-27). "A Publisher Plays Coy With Book Release". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/books/little-brown-offers-untitled-by-anonymous.html. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
