He pleaded guilty to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, so if you’re keen to watch Netflix’s new true crime series The Monster of Wallstreet, you might be wondering where is Bernie Madoff now after he defrauded investors out of tens of billions of dollars.

Born in 1938 and brought up in a modest home in Queens, NY, Madoff elbowed his way into the Manhattan elite circles to become a figure once regarded as a titan of Wall Street. He was the former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange as well the chairman of his own company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which grew to be the sixth-largest market maker in S&P 500 stocks after its establishment in 1960.

He’s also largely responsible for computerized trading—an industry that Google, Microsoft and Apple are a part of today. Regarded as a “great innovator”, according to Monster of Wallstreet director Joe Berlinger per The Guardian, as well as an “evil genius”, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years behind bars after pleading guilty to 11 federal felonies. But was he actually remorseful or was he once again choosing himself in a final act of selfishness?

Where is Bernie Madoff now?

Where is Bernie Madoff now? The disgraced financier died behind bars in Butner, North Carolina, at the age of 82 on April 14, 2021. According to a death certificate obtained by TMZ at the time, his cause of death was revealed to be hypertension, atherosclerotic…