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'I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening,' said Ruth Madoff in a television programme.
Updated : Mar 18, 2018, 04:21 AM IST
The wife of financial swindler Bernard Madoff said the couple attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed.
"I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening," Ruth Madoff told the CBS programme 60 Minutes, which will be broadcast on Sunday.