Picture 947.pngEveryone’s up in arms today and the lot of you think your lives, and the world, are over. Well let me give you a little perspective. There’s an old lady on the Upper East Side with actual problems. Her name is Ruth and all she wanted to do last night was put on her hat and grab a hunk of Jarlsberg and a bottle of wine, kick back and think about how different her life could’ve been if she’d married Benjamin Lipshitz. She was also thinking about doing some laundry for the first time, though that plan was foiled, thank god.

Ruth Madoff, looking like a desperate housewife, went grocery shopping last night, just hours after her swindler husband, Bernard, learned he would have to stay in jail, at least for now.
She left the Upper East Side penthouse she’s struggling to hold onto at about 8:30 p.m. and walked to a Food Emporium.
Photographers spotted Ruth, whose nearly $93 million in assets have come under government scrutiny, dropping American and Jarlsberg cheese into her cart. She was carrying a shopping list, with detergent the top item. But she stormed out after seeing the shutterbugs.
“Oh, this is crazy, forget this!” she fumed. “Oh, very exciting, I went to the grocery store.”

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Comments (50)

  1. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    holy shit, sweet tag

  2. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    what happened to horse-face family?

  3. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    awesome tag. ya gotta feel for the old broad.

  4. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM

    best tag ever

  5. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM

    hysterical post – love it!

  6. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM

    Fucking classic! Best tag ever for sure! And no I don’t feel for this broad. If and when she is begging for change with a cup I’d take the cup and spit in her eye! Tron is living for the citaaay!!!!

  7. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    It’s better this way ruthie, all that cheese wouldve given you bad gas.

  8. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM

    Did she have a coupon?

  9. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    I know everyone is thinking it, so I’ll just say it: Total MILF

  10. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    Rumor has it that Ruth had a 45% return last year in her personal e-trade account.

  11. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    She looks like a rat.

  12. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM

    Why is there a voice in my head that starts reading every one these posts with meanwhile back at the model home. . .

  13. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM

    somewhere there has to be a psych student using these people as a case study for a thesis sociopaths.
    she is out shopping and acts indignant about the attention? hey bitch! you stole hundreds of millions!
    she is lucky that some kook doesn’t jack her with a sock full of nickels.

  14. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    This demonstrates still another benefit of using Fresh Direct. I suspect though that Ruth, like my grandmother, may not be good with a computer.

  15. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    serious GILF

  16. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    Man worth $100 Mil and he has a dog wife
    Consistent with Banker peers

  17. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    There is a photographer permanently parked at China Fun on 64th Street. His job is to follow the China Fun delivery men to see if they are delivering to the Madoff residence. If so he pays the delivery man and goes up himself. The problem is he can’t fit his Nikon D700 in a large Egg Fu Yung container. I shit you not!

  18. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    What a moron. Yeah, lemme just sneak out and go to the store. Word of advice – move to Guam.

  19. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    17 The only way that would work is if China Fun had only one delivery man. I hate Chinese food, so I don’t know for sure, but I would doubt it.

  20. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    couldn’t she have gone skiing instead?

  21. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    Bess, never go away please, unless its to have my babies.

  22. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    She’s more of a MILK.
    Mom I Like to Kill.

  23. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    She’s more of a MILK.
    Mom I’d Like to Kill.

  24. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM

    Ruth, Venezuela looks good. You can make a decent living showing Chavez’s followers the perils of capitalism.

  25. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    I WOULD RATHER BE IN JAIL THEN HOUSE ARREST WITH THAT UGLY BITCHHHHH

  26. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    @12 Kudos. Not too many AD references these days.

  27. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    The $64,000 question is, “Will they be able to nail you.?” Just how smart are you?

  28. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM

    She came an awful long way for the g/d cheese since she is a homesteading resident of Florida these days…..

  29. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM

    China Fun smells like boiled cat whenever I walk by.

  30. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    @12 – WIN

  31. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM

    Ruthie will be remarried before the 2010 fesitcal of lights.

  32. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM

    Festical of lights? Is that some sort of hanukah for my balls?

  33. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    But is it Lipshitz continuous?

  34. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    Why was she schlepping over to 3rd ave? Boutique stores on madison were built for jerks like her. Ya Ruthie, now you see what the little people have to deal with over on 3rd? What a jerk.

  35. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    she won’t be in that neighborhood for long.

  36. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    34 Geography lesson: she lives corner of 64/Lex, which is hardly a schlep to the Food-E at 63/Third.

  37. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    28 A reference I guess to the fact that for a Florida resident a primary residence is not subject to bankruptcy claims?

  38. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    I agree with her. That IS crazy. So she went grocery shopping. Big friggin’ deal!

  39. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    @19 That’s weird. I love Chinese food. Although I do hate the Chinese.

  40. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM

    That ho is hideous. Madoff sucks.

  41. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    @33 Too geeky, had to wiki.

  42. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    36 – Reality lesson. UES snobs avoid walking east of Park as they have everything they need on Madison…why deal with the 3rd – York Brother Jimmy’s crowd? That was the point. Relax.

  43. Posted by guest | March 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    seriously, nobody has robbed her yet?

  44. Posted by guest | March 21, 2009 at 12:35 AM

    Cute tag, but you need a valid credit card to use Fresh Direct. Ruthie’s options ain’t what they used to be.

  45. Posted by guest | March 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM

    Detergent….is she just going to “wash that man right out of my hair?”

  46. Posted by guest | March 22, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    Detergent….is she just going to “wash that man right out of my hair?”

  47. Posted by Last Man Standing | March 22, 2009 at 12:26 AM

    Well obviously she needs to go out and buy cheese. she hasnt been able to suck Bernie’s dick lately. she misses the cheese.

  48. Posted by guest | March 22, 2009 at 1:24 AM

    last man standing- you’re a weird, creepy dude.

  49. Posted by guest | March 22, 2009 at 1:25 AM

    @45/46- detergent is used to wash clothes. idiot.

  50. Posted by guest | March 22, 2009 at 2:45 AM

    Bess please try to introduce Ruthie to Eliot S. Perfect couple.

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