The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It looks like Big Ponz treasure hunters prefer Rolexes and diamond earrings to boats. On Saturday, a New York auction of Bernie and Ruth Madoff's personal effects brought more than $900,000 - nearly double the estimated total. Madoff's boats didn't do as well. All four sold at a Fort Lauderdale auction yesterday, but only netted about $2 million, less than half the total estimated...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A small fleet of powerboats owned by the convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff and his associates fetched almost $2 million ($£1.2 million) at an auction in Florida overnight, which was held to raise cash for the thousands of victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.$
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A small fleet of powerboats owned by the convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff and his associates fetched nearly $2 million ($£1.2 million) at an auction in Florida overnight, which was held to raise cash for the thousands of victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.$
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bernard Madoff's yacht "Bull," two smaller boats and a Mercedes-Benz convertible have been auctioned in Florida for more than $1 million combined.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bernard Madoff's yacht "Bull," two smaller boats and a Mercedes-Benz convertible have been auctioned in Florida for more than $1 million combined. Bernard Madoff - Mercedes-Benz - Florida - Makes and Models - Recreation
The Israeli Diamond Industry (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
What a shame. A crowd of 50 gathered around to get a look at 14-carat diamond earrings (sold for $70,000), a platinum, diamond and emerald bracelet, as well as nearly 200 other items, as U.S. Marshals prepared for an auction from the estate of convicted Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff. These pre-Victorian era diamond dangle earrings include oval and pear-cut diamonds of between 0.90 and 1.58 carats....
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Saturday's auction of Bernie Madoff's personal effects brought more than $900,000 - far exceeding Bloomberg's pre-sale estimate of $470,000 to $586,000. The items that blew away expectations weren't the much-hyped Rolexes but the more eccentric Madoff memorabilia up for auction. Bernie's personalized Mets jacket, wooden duck decoys, and Hofstra class ring were among the things that went...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A representative of Gaston & Sheehan shows off some of Ruth Madoff's gently used purses. Over at the Sheraton Towers in midtown today, assorted tourists and gawkers were checking out a preview of the auction of belongings the U.S. Marshals had seized from the estate of Bernard Madoff, which will be officially for sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow. The bulk of the things on offer is...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
• More than 500 people, plus 1,000 online bidders, attend sale at Sheraton hotel in New York • Items auctioned range from personalised New York Mets baseball jacket to family dog bowl Valuation has always been an elastic concept in anything touching Bernard Madoff. But even the notorious Wall Street fraudster might have balked at the lofty prices paid for his personal belongings by...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Bernard and Ruth Madoff's belongings fetched several times their estimated values at auction Saturday for a total of about $1 million, twice as much as auctioneers had hoped for.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Photograph by Richard Drew/AP Yesterday, the U.S. Marshals auctioned off the belongings of Bernard and Ruth Madoff—objects as fancy as diamond jewelry and as mundane as stationery—and raked in almost $1 million. Perhaps the most recognizable item for sale, a satin Mets jacket with "MADOFF" embroidered on the back (one of his clients/victims was Mets owner...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Buyer pays $14,500 for Madoff jacket NEW YORK | Items once belonging to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife have fetched as much as 20 times their estimated value at a New York City auction. The fallen financier's blue satin New York Mets baseball jacket with his surname stitched on the back was valued up to $720, but sold for $14,500. Two pairs of Ruth Madoff's...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Bernard and Ruth Madoff's belongings fetched several times their estimated values at auction Saturday for a total of about $1 million, twice as much as the auctioneers had hoped for.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
A treasure trove of spoils from Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife raked in nearly a million dollars in an auction to help pay back some of his victims. But the proceeds were still just a mere drop in the ocean compared to the 21.2 billion dollars investors are said to have lost in Madoff's grandiose scam that duped celebrities, charities and scores of ordinary people over...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
NEW YORK - It was about fascination with big money - and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history. Bernard and Ruth Madoff's...
