In a scene near the end of HBO Films' docudrama The Wizard of Lies, Andrew, the youngest son of fraudster Bernie Madoff, speaks to a writing class at Princeton in 2013. A student asks him why he hasn't tried harder to clear his name and convince the world that he knew nothing of the $65 billion Ponzi scheme that led his father to be sentenced to 150 years in jail in 2009. "I don't know if I'm that sympathetic a character," Andrew says. "At the end of the day, I lived a life of great wealth and privilege," one that was subsidized by his father's prey. "It's hard to tell our story," he continues, referring to himself, his brother, Mark, and their mother, Ruth. "There are just three of us, and there were thousands of victims."
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