- Son Andrew Madoff born 1966.
- Son Mark Madoff born 1964. He died on Dec. 11, 2010, from suicide by hanging.
- (June 29, 2009) As Inmate 61727054, Madoff, age 71, began serving a 150-year prison sentence in Federal Correctional Complex, Butner (NC), where his adjacent cell inmate is Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
- Celebrity victims of Madoff's multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme include actors John Malkovich, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; producers Steven Spielberg, Arpad Busson and Jeffrey Katzenberg; screenwriter Eric Roth; interviewer Larry King; former NY state attorney general Eliot Spitzer; baseball legend Sandy Koufax; Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel; stand-up comic Shecky Greene; and Liliane Bettencourt (L'Oréal heiress and Europe's richest woman), among many, many others.
- Conducted his Ponzi scheme from his office on the 17th floor of the Lipstick Building ( 885 Third Avenue) in Manhattan, a scheme that ultimately bilked investors of an estimated $65 billion.
- Madoff and family once lived in a 7-room duplex penthouse at 134 East 64th Street (at Lexington Ave) from 1984 until 2009. His apartment was subsequently purchased by "4Kids Entertainment" toy mogul Alfred Kahn and his wife for $8M in 2010. NBC's "Today" co-host Matt Lauer lives on the 9th floor of this building.
- Madoff's defense attorney, Ira Sorkin, had earlier represented the "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort.
- Brother of Peter Madoff.
- Father of Mark Madoff and Andrew Madoff.
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