Ruth Madoff's Private World
Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.
Lavish Palm Beach shopping sprees, a sister-in-law in poverty, quiet movie nights-Lucinda Franks offers an exclusive look at Ruth's life, then and now.
The Best of Bernie
Ben Crair is an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
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.
I Survived Hurricane Bernie
Annette Tapert has written several books on society, fashion and beauty, including The Power of Style and The Power of Glamour. She has co-authored the autobiographies of Slim Keith, Swifty Lazar, and Siegfried and Roy, among others. She divides her time between New York and Palm Beach.
The reversal of fortunes Madoff caused in Palm Beach society will be felt for years to come in local real estate, philanthropy-and especially the Chanel boutique.
Did We All Go Mad?
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
An explanation (of sorts) for the rush to go broke that engulfed us.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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