John Malkovich: Madoff Owes Me $2.2 Million

NEW YORK — Actor John Malkovich's lawyers have complained to a judge in New York overseeing the bankruptcy of jailed financier Bernie Madoff that he'll only get $670,000 of his $2.2 million claim.

The lawyers filed papers Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court saying the actor should be entitled to $2.2 million. They say the trustee handling the estate determined that the actor was entitled to the smaller number and that's wrong.

The 56-year-old star of such films as "Being John Malkovich" and "Burn After Reading" is among thousands of investors who lost tens of billions of dollars in the multi-decade fraud that Madoff revealed in December 2008 when he ran out of money.

Madoff is serving a 150-year jail term after pleading guilty to fraud charges.

Comments

[SwingingFromCenter]

11:32 AM on 04/06/2010

1) That's some nerve on Malk's part. Did he invest 2.2 million? I'm guessing no. I bet he invested 600 and some odd thousand, and the "value" of it went up to 2.2 million, and he thinks that somehow that means he should have all of it because he was in the Ponzi scheme early.

2) This guy should know full well that there's not enough money to give *everybody* what they lost. So why should he be special and get his full amount, which will just reduce the reduced amount others who invested with that clown get?

[peaceandfreedom]

10:15 PM on 04/05/2010

Awww--git in line John!

[Levonsky]

01:44 PM on 04/05/2010

Financial experts knew that Madoff could not legitimately be earning the returns he promised.

They all thought it was insider trading cause he was head of nasdaq.

They didn't care how he made his money...I guess they do now.

Surprise, not insider trading...a ponzi scheme.

[pamique]

10:06 AM on 04/05/2010

Hey, John, big guy, caveat emptor.

[374662]

08:22 AM on 04/05/2010

People can see through the scams and even do the right thing. Need proof? Look here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36147685/ns/today-today_people/

[1logicalthinker]

03:44 AM on 04/05/2010

If Bernie cooperates perhaps he get fifty years knocked off his sentence :)

[Rusty Rebar]

06:09 PM on 04/04/2010

gosh -- how sad, another craven ayn rand-ian who got exactly what he was looking for -- outrageous returns for no effort whatsoever -- bernie's everywhere SHOULD GET A MEDAL (as well as jail time) for fleecing the likes of this talentless miscreant.

[haiku man]

02:23 AM on 04/04/2010

Great news. I cannot stand John Malvovich.

[JDOK]

01:29 PM on 04/03/2010

Hey John, why don't you ask Ruthie or her sons for the difference.......they certainly have that small amount in petty cash......

[tanx8]

09:51 AM on 04/03/2010

Weren't alarm bells rining in Malkovich's mind when he read the Madoff investment reports? The company rarely made a "loss", they reported excessive growth and portrayed themselves as immune from market problems. Madoff's company attracted people with its excessively high yield- greed.

[MichaelLittleBig]

09:23 AM on 04/03/2010

Hey John,

Is it possible that Bernie Madoff is the Robinhood of our time?

After all he took from the rich and gave to the rich.

Unlike the Congress that took from the middleclass and kept it.

[genuflex]

05:27 AM on 04/03/2010

Ouch!

[ThirdSection]

12:00 AM on 04/03/2010

Well duh. If Bernie Madoff was crawling into my mind from behind an old file cabinet, I'd want $2.2 million as well!

[ztck5356]

10:11 PM on 04/02/2010

Maybe if he wrote Madoff a letter in prison he would send him the money.

[catbite]

09:17 PM on 04/02/2010

I would not like to have someone as creepy as John Malkovich keeping an eye on me. He sounds like he is going to pull a caper to do Bernie in. could be a good movie script.