Who was Bernie Madoff’s sister Sondra Wiener?
BERNIE Madoff is credited with running one of the largest Ponzi schemes of all time - even his sister was duped, losing millions of dollars to the conman.
Sondra Weiner was found dead in February of 2022.
Who was Bernie Madoff's sister Sondra Wiener?
Sondra Weiner is the elder sister of Bernie Madoff.
The Madoff family grew up in New York - Sylvia and Ralph, their parents, also share a third child, Peter.
Not much is publicly known about Sondra, although she was one of Bernie's victims during the height of his Ponzi scheme.
She reportedly lost around $3million to her brother's scam, and was forced to put her house in Florida on the market at the time, according to .
Sondra was married to a man named Marvin Wiener until her death.
What happened to her?
On Thursday, February 17, 2022, Sondra Weiner and an unnamed elderly man were found with gunshot wounds at their home in Valencia Lakes, Florida.
Sondra was 86 years old at the time of her death.
In a media advisory, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office confirmed Sondra's identity as one of the bodies located.
"Deputies responded to a 911 call advising a male and female were unresponsive inside their residence," the statement reads.
"Upon arrival deputies located an elderly female and male deceased from a gunshot wound."
The cause of death has not yet been determined, but initial investigation indicates the deaths may be a murder-suicide.
Most read in US News
Who was Bernie Madoff?
Born on April 29, 1938, Bernie Madoff was a financier turned fraudster, credited with running the largest Ponzi scheme of all time.
In 2009, Bernie pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies and admitted to turning his wealth management business into a massive scam.
Prosecutors estimated the fraud to be worth around $64.8billion, based on the amount in the accounts of Bernie's thousands of clients.
He founded a penny stock brokerage in 1960, eventually turning into Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
Bernie also served as a former non-executive chairman for the NASDAQ stock market.
At the age of 82, Bernie Madoff died while incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, , on April 14, 2021.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
He died from natural causes, a person familiar with the matter told at the time.
We pay for your stories!
Do you have a story for The US Sun team?
Email us at [email protected] or call 212 416 4552.
Like us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at