UPDATE Madoff victim: Thierry de la Villehuchet, apparent suicide

December 23, 2008

UPDATE Madoff victim: Thierry de la Villehuchet, apparent suicide

December 23, 2008

Source CNN

Thierry de la Villehuchet, a hedge fund adviser who lost $1.5 billion in Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme was found dead in his office from an apparent suicide. Unidentified pills were found but he had used a box cutter to slice his arm, wrist and biceps area. No suicide note. Does money matter this much to people? How can an investor not know he's out $1.5B? How many more deaths will arise from Madoff's evil greed? Hollywood couldn't have made up his name. How can noone not know the money was missing and why is he allowed to live in his posh apartment? How many people have lost everything because of him. I don't understand such greed and lack of a conscience.

UPDATE via AP:

On Monday (12-22), he reportedly told the cleaning crew to be out of his office by 7pm because he was going to work late. The following morning he was found dead seated at his desk in his locked office. He had what appeared to be self-inflicted lacerations on his arm from a box cutter and there was a garbage can nearby to catch the blood. The autopsy was done today but the coroner is awaiting toxicology results before he signs off on the caused of death - sleeping pills were found on the desk. This to me means he hadn't bled out. If he lacerates an artery a garbage can isn't going to catch the arterial spurting. It seems like a strangely passive suicide for a man. Is there an historic method for French Aristocrats? Him telling the crew to get lost is an indicator of him not wanting to be interrupted. Have there been cases of texted suicide notes? The case of the teenager who was allowed to die from an intentional overdose while bloggers looked on and egged him on is depravity at its worst.