According to a Curbed tipster, a new four-bedroom rental available for just $32,500 at 158 Mercer Street is the former apartment of the late Mark Madoff—expensive rentals are all the rage, don't you know? Curbed says, "The listing doesn't make the connection (we can't blame it for wanting to fly under the radar) and we haven't yet heard back from the broker, but the details line up: Mark Madoff and wife Stephanie purchased the 4,169-square-foot #4M for $6.075 million in 2005. The brokerbabble describes the apartment as having 'a very high end, magnificent renovation.'" Of course, Madoff, son of Ponzi schemer extraordinaire Bernard Madoff, killed himself in his apartment last December.
The tabloids reported that Madoff was found hanging in the apartment by his father-in-law (while his baby was sleeping in another room): The Daily News revealed, per police sources, that Madoff "knotted the black leash around a steel pole in a lighting rack on the living room ceiling" and the Post detailed that police found a vaccum cleaner cord and another dog leash, which were both snapped—apparently because Madoff failed in hanging himself using those materials.
