(Bloomberg) — Andrew Madoff, the son of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, left more than $15 million in property to his children, wife and fiancée in his will following his death from lymphoma this month.
Andrew Madoff listed $11 million in personal property and $4.5 million in improved real property in his will, which was filed two days ago with Surrogate's Court in Manhattan and made public yesterday.
Madoff left all of his tangible personal property to his daughters, Emily and Anne, and one-third of his estate to his estranged wife, Deborah West, according to the will. The rest goes to his fiancée, Catherine Hooper. Ruth Madoff, his mother, isn't listed as a beneficiary.
Andrew Madoff died Sept. 2 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after battling mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney, Martin Flumenbaum, said in a statement. Flumenbaum didn't immediately return a voice-mail message left at his office after regular business hours seeking comment on the will.
As heads of the trading desk at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, Madoff and his older brother, Mark, led the market-making business of the once-respected firm while their father, based on another floor, handled client investments.
Falsified statements
The firm's clients invested $17.5 billion in principal and were led to believe, through falsified statements and trade confirmations, that they had a total of $64.8 billion in their accounts. Irving Picard, the trustee appointed to collect money for victims of the fraud, had recovered $9.8 billion as of July to partially reimburse clients who lost money.
