Bernard Madoff (Bernard Madoff news) seemed aloof to many, even after he was arrested, even after he was sent to prison in North Carolina for 150 years. He seemed to revel in the "street cred" he achieved for not ratting anyone out. He apparently had a certain cachet among his fellow inmates. But if he was somehow proud of this ability to fool so many people for so long, he has now been humbled in the most painful way.

Madoff looked "like someone had shot him in the stomach" after he got word that his eldest son Mark Madoff had committed suicide, the New York Post reports. "He was crying, and he was very distraught. No one was messing with him. They knew what had happened," a recent inmate at the federal prison in Butner, N.C., told the newspaper.

At first, inmates thought something happened to Madoff's wife. "Everyone was speculating that someone might have killed his wife." But "after his sobbing return to his cell, Madoff went into a self-imposed exile for two days," according to the Post. "He didn't come out of his cell. He didn't even go to the chow hall. He didn't talk to anyone for a couple of days."

Madoff eventually emerged and seemed to have dealt with the death. But he was thought to be "steamed that neither Ruth nor any other family members had been to the prison to grieve with him," noted the inmate.

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