The Best of Bernie

We searched the media to unearth the juiciest nuggets about the alleged Ponzi schemer—from the price of his manicures to the vanity plates on his accountant's car.

Published Dec. 19 2008 1:16AM EST

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The Bernard Madoff scandal has so saturated the media that you may have missed some of the juiciest details. Which celebrities did Madoff fleece? How many houses did he own? And what did his accountant’s vanity license plates say? We’ve combed through the records to assemble a dossier: the best...