Andrew Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɔːf/ MAY-doff;[4] April 8, 1966 – September 3, 2014) was an American financier best known for, alongside his brother, exposing the financial crimes of his father, Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme has been widely described as the largest and most successful in history.
As the financial crisis of 2008 made markets plunge, their father was unable to maintain the deception; they later described how he confessed his ongoing scheme to them and their mother on December 10, 2008.
Madoff and Hooper announced their plans to marry and lived together for years, but his divorce had not been completed prior to his death.
[1] His cancer went into remission, but returned in 2011, which he attributed to stress from the fallout over his father's crimes.
[1] After his death, Reuters described ongoing attempts to sue Andrew Madoff and his brother's estate, in spite of a British court's ruling that the pair were not co-conspirators.