Catherine Hooper
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Catherine Hooper is an American entrepreneur who was engaged to Andrew Madoff 1 .
Biography Catherine Hooper grew up in upstate New York 2 . She was working at a store that sold high-end fishing tackle when she met Madoff 1 .
She moved in with Madoff in late 2008 , shortly before Andrew's father, Bernie Madoff , confessed that he had cheated with a huge Ponzi scheme 3 .
In 2011 , publisher Little, Brown & Company said its fall release schedule included a book chronicling "the private life story of one of the most controversial figures of our time " . After a leak appeared to reveal that Catherine Hooper and Laurie Sandell were the book's co-authors, members of the publishing house assumed the book was about Bernie Madoff. When "Truth and Consequence: Life in the Madoff Family" was published, Sandell was the only credited author.
Madoff helped Catherine Hooper create Black Umbrella, an organization that helped people organize after disasters 4 .
Madoff was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 , but was in remission . He started cancer treatment again, after relapsing in 2011 . He had a stem cell transplant in mid-2014 and his recovery looked promising, until he died of sudden complications in September 2014 .
Madoff's estate was nominally worth $ 16 million . He had tried to set up a trust fund that was to pay Catherine Hooper $50,000 a month. However, Irving Picard , the bankruptcy trustee fighting to recover money from Bernie Madoff's defrauded clients, has his funds tied up. Catherine Hooper said when Madoff died she quickly downsized her apartment to a smaller 46m², where she and her daughter shared a bunk bed.
Catherine Hooper was played by Lily Rabe in the film The Wizard of Lies (2017) 6 .
