In 2012, the trustee tasked with recouping money for Bernie's victims, Irving H. Picard, named all three of Madoff's sons' ex-wives, among others, in a $255.3 million dollar lawsuit that claimed "the women should have been aware of and reported Madoff's fraud," according to the LA Times. Mark's ex-wife, Susan Elkin, was sued for $2.4 million, his widow, Stephanie Mack, for $27.5 million, and Andrew's ex-wife, Deborah Madoff, for $27.7 million. "Simply put, if the Family Defendants had been doing their jobs — honestly and faithfully — the Madoff Ponzi scheme might never have succeeded, or continued for so long," Picard's suit stated.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, all three women had been "dropped from Picard's suit under confidential terms" at some point. It is unclear what, if any, money they surrendered to the victims' restitution fund, but a later settlement further stripped Mark's and Andrew's estates of "a combined $23 million" dollars, leaving them with $1.75 million and $2 million dollars respectively.
