First we have one-time child actor Lee Aaker, 77, who died of a stroke in Arizona. When I was a little girl, like millions of other baby boom kids, I watched the television version of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. I could be wrong, but I believe the dog in the series was a descendant of the original one in the silent film serials, just as "Lassie," a male crossdressing dog, was a descendant of the dog, Pal, who played the role in Lassie Come Home.
He later quit the movies and worked as a carpenter and a ski instructor.
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And of course, who could ever forget the aptly named Bernie Madoff? He died in prison today at the age of 82. He was the man who swindled thousands of people out of their life savings in a bunch of shitty investments and then went to prison for them.
It was the biggest investment fraud scandal in U.S. history.
He died of natural causes in a North Carolina prison.
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For more than 50 years, Bernie Madoff was renowned on Wall Street, a big money manager who founded his own firm at age 22 and became nonexecutive chairman of the Nasdaq in 1990. He was credited with helping develop some of the systems and market structures that moved the stock market beyond the trading floor and gave rise to modern, electronic trading.
But Madoff’s life came crashing down in 2008, during the depths of the financial crisis.
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