Madoff’s Son Suicide
46-year-old Mark Madoff, Bernie Madoff's eldest son, hanged himself Saturday by a dog leash from a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment while his 2-year-old son was asleep in another room. The death was officially ruled a suicide by the New York City examiner. Mark Madoff's death occurred on the 2nd anniversary of his father's arrest in the largest pyramid scheme ever recorded.