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, had his estate 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).[5]
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.
- ↑ Diana B. Henriques (2014-09-04). "Andrew Madoff, Who Told of His Father's Swindle, Dies at 48". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/business/andrew-madoff-son-of-convicted-financier-dies-at-48.html. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva (2015-09-11). "Lily Rabe Joins HBO's Bernie Madoff Movie 'The Wizard Of Lies'". Deadline magazine. https://deadline.com/2015/09/lily-rabe-cast-bernie-madoff-movie-the-wizard-of-lies-1201521912/. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
