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Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me Hardcover – August 25, 2009

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Nobody knew Bernie like I did, and nobody knows about me…

Sheryl Weinstein met Bernie Madoff when she was just shy of forty, and went on to have a twenty-year secret, intimate relationship with the man now known as an evil mastermind, a villain of the greatest proportions.

It was 1988 and Sheryl was facing a huge dilemma. Bernie Madoff was paying her a great deal of attention. She was in the midst of a rocky marriage and feeling vulnerable, when the powerful Wall Street mogul began making overtures. As a successful CPA and head of a major charitable organization, she had a lot to lose. She directed him to take things slowly.

Over the next five years, there were business meetings over lunch, followed by intimate dinners in hotel rooms and finally, private moments that for a time seemed intensely satisfying to them both. “I’m not to be trusted,” he once told her casually. She ignored it, having no idea how prophetic those words would be. After all, her relationship with Bernie was passionate and profound. She felt desirable. She was the one nobody knew about, with the window into the real man. So careful about investing her money, when the SEC cleared him in 1992 she decided to get in all the way--with her heart, her soul--and her financial future.

Sheryl was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She couldn't possibly have imagined the devastation that would befall her. Learning the truth was shattering on so many levels.

Many books are being written about the scale of Madoff's fraud, but until now, nothing has shown the man through private eyes. Sheryl Weinstein's riveting story reveals a Madoff who will shock and surprise you. From the boardroom to the bedroom, in each other, the two found something that had been lacking in their own lives. It's a story with tragic overtones--a drama that only now could find a devastating conclusion.

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"Sheryl Weinstein... might just be an Emma Bovary for the 21st century... Madoff's Other Secret is a surprisingly good read." --The Daily Beast

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Sheryl Weinstein, former CFO of Hadassah and controller of Lincoln Center has seen Madoff up close for more than twenty years, as she reveals in MADOFF’S OTHER SECRET: LOVE, MONEY, BERNIE AND ME.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press; 1st Edition (August 25, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312618379
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312618377
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.58 inches

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Fudge23

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2023

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A good and easy read. What a surprise that Madoff was a cheated on his wife too. Girlfriend give some insight to the total lowlife Bernie Madoff.

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One Tree in the Forest

Sleep with dogs and you might get fleas!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2013

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I am having some difficulty in reviewing this book. From a standpoint of writing it flows smoothly and is an easy, quick read.

I rarely ask myself, when reading a book, why the author wrote it. I found myself asking that question to as I read this book. While I am pleased to think that Ms. Weinstein may earn some money from her book's sales to make her otherwise destitute retirement (at Bernie's hands) more comfortable than it would have been, I found the book enigmatic. At best, the author suffered from great naiveté.

Beginning with the title, "Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me", I think that just calling it "Madoff: Another Secret" might have been adequate. As far as "Love" is concerned, there was little love involved in the story other than perhaps the author's underlying lack of self love (insecurity). Of "Money", there is much talk because the author is a CPA, and CFO of a major charity which lost a great deal of money that was invested with Bernie's company. She was not responsible for the charity's loss. She also invested her family's (and her individual) funds in Bernie's company because of the favorable results the charity's investment with him was apparently earning. The "Bernie and Me" part was definitely not titillating - just factual and so slow paced that an outsider can hardly be drawn into it, breathlessly or otherwise.

A case could be made that a CPA and CFO of a large organization should have smelled something fishy. The fact that the monthly "statements" from Bernie's firm showed only (phony) transactions, and was not truly a "statement of account" alone should have been found questionable. But Bernie had convincing reasons for everything - especially in a case where you see what you want to see and believe what you want to believe. After all, when the earnings on your accounts were so good, ignoring nagging inconsistencies in Bernie's firm's way of doing business were ignorable. Bernie also tended not to respond to questions defensively, but rather he answered queries about his firm in a very low keyed and "informational way".

I guess I am a natural cynic. I believe that is something is too good to be true it probably isn't true. Also, I am neither greedy nor particularly interested in wealth and its advantages. So, in cases like this (where there were individual investors involved), I lay a lot of blame on greed and desire for a lifestyle based on things money can buy.

Other than an outsider/insider viewpoint on Bernie's lifestyle and activities, for persons who are specifically interested in that subject, I am left with a neutral standpoint as to recommending this book. I like to come away from non-fiction reads having learned something new - and for me this book did not bring any new knowledge, it only reinforced my belief in the social and personal mores I live by - through witnessing what happens to persons whose social and personal mores are in need of a good upgrade.

Note: I paid 1¢ for this book (plus $3.99 for shipping), and it was a price appropriate purchase!

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grm1984

I enjoyed this

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2010

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I have a feeling a lot of reviewers on here didn't actually read this book. While this is by no means a literary masterpiece, it wasn't nearly as terrible as everyone on here makes it out to seem. It's also not nearly as raunchy or shameless or embarrassing as people seem to say.... It was a quick read. The writing is very straight forward. Weinstein makes it very clear from the get-go that she's pissed off and she's doing what she has to in an effort to make up for the money that was stolen from her by Bernie Madoff. She doesn't waste too much feeling sorry for herself, nor does she spend much time searching for reason or insight. This is by no means a "here is what I've learned from the tragedies in my life" sort of memoir. All Weinstein is doing is telling her story as it happened. What I enjoyed most about the book is that Weinstein doesn't paint herself out to be perfect. If anything, she does just the opposite. She is fully aware of the mistakes she's made and the stupid things she's done. I wish her all the best as she rebuilds her life.

38 people found this helpful

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Read for the laughs

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2017

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I have to admit, I enjoyed this book. First off, it was totally scandalous. The book isn't the best written book but she is not an author. Just a mistress. In Stephanie Madoff's book she doubts she even existed. Now the funny parts. When Bernie walks in the boardroom, a woman murmurs, "I didn't know he would be that handsome". That is a stretch. Sheryl also talks about his sexy blue eyes and gray (but balding) hair. She also curiously says "He taught me about Dijonnaise that night. Their love was brief and boring. Still, worth reading for the laughs alone.

11 people found this helpful

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pocleves

Reviewers are all very different

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2009

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I really enjoyed this book, because the author is like a philosopher looking back on her life, able to merge present and past in a subtle and engaging way. Unlike other reviewers who take the superficial stance that that they just wanted to read the sex parts, or that this woman is stupid or gives too much away in the narrative, are really missing the point. It's not a long book by any means, but she has only a certain amount to say and as I wondered about Madoff, I wondered about her at the same time. So I didn't cringe at the extra details. I was curious what in her own marriage made her take on an affair, and wasn't everyone curious what kind of husband would stick by this woman, knowing what he did? These questions instigated by the press are answered...I'm surprised all people might want is a bit of sexual voyeurism, after a financial scheme like this went down. I predict this event will continue to make the news for years and that this book will be one of a number of works to fill in the dimensions for us.

12 people found this helpful

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karen

A different perspective

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2017

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My girlfriend told me to read this book and I honestly turned up my nose. My husband was away for the weekend so I bought it on amazon. I could not put it down! I wanted to hate the book but honestly, it was well written and you get a very different perspective (the girlfriend's story)
of Bernie Madoff. I now have convinced others to read the story.
I liked the book very much and dislike the man even more after reading the book.
What a horrible and despicable man. It does not excuse Sheryl Weinstein of cheating on her
husband and Ruth Madoff, anyway you tell the story.

4 people found this helpful

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Tadeusza Kosci

Really, Queen?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2021

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I'll come right out and admit I'm a Madoff literature junkie. But I truly could have gone to my grave without knowing that Bernie had a cocktail weenie. I almost fell out of bed. The author seems to have a number of grave character defects, in addition to picking Bernie of course -- she publicizes her husband's mental illness for all the world to see and even includes a photo of her son as a child. Um, why? I would consider this sort of thing a real family betrayal, but that's me. Make sure you pay two dollars or less for this dog with fleas.

5 people found this helpful

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DOPPLEGANGER

LACKING CREDIBILITY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 27, 2010

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Having read 3 books on Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi Scheme (see All My Reviews)and many press articles and internet commentary focused on this complex, and deeply flawed character, I was surprised to find that Mrs Weinstein, despite her claims to a long and intimate relationship with Madoff, was unable to provide any fresh insight into his character and motives. The sparsity of substantial detail considering that Mrs Weinstein claims both a long business and intimate relationship with Mr Madoff was, indeed a great disappointment.

At the end of the book I was none the wiser or any better informed which is surprising considering the advertising material stated, inter alia, "Nobody knew Bernie like I did...and "Sheryl Weinstein's riveting story reveals a Madoff who will shock and surprise you......a drama that only now could find a devastating conclusion." Shocked - yes when in December 2008 when confessed to a fraud of unimaginable scale and consequences, but not at the claims of a clandestine dalliance without collaboration or any substantive evidence whatsoever.

Whatever her motives, Mrs Weinstein's book lacks creditability and lacks compassion for her husband Ronnie who suffers terribly at the hands of her pen and those who assisted in the writing of this book.

5 people found this helpful