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Ruth Madoff Takes the Subway

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Wife of Ponzi schemer endures the hoi polloi.

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A ride on the New York subway isn't so bad--unless you have a New York Post photographer hounding you the whole time. A dogged photographer snapped a hilarious picture of Ruth Madoff riding the F train, ironically sitting in front of an advertisement for a 99-cent cell phone. "Are you having fun embarrassing me--and ruining my life?" Ruth said to the Post photographer. The article notes that Ruth is looking much less upper-class than she did during her and husband Bernie's glory days; her clothes are not too fashionable and her hair is unkempt.

Read it at New York Post