Video link of Carmen here.
Original supermodel -- sorry, Janice -- Carmen Dell’Orefice tells an amazing story about how she lost money with Madoff. Vanity Fair, in a sense, was born for this story as it covers the same terrain as the magazine covers, featuring the same players. BTW: How elegantly hott is Carmen Dell’Orefice -- at 77 years of age! She can "coug" The Corsair anytime. Rowr.
Anyway (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment), from Vanity Fair:
"Over dinner in New York one night in January, I was airing my frustration concerning Bernard Madoff. Everybody had read about the losses he had inflicted on foundations associated with Steven Spielberg, Elie Wiesel, and Mort Zuckerman, I told my dinner companions, but after having interviewed nearly 40 of his other financial victims, I still couldn’t get a picture of what the man was like. 'If you want to know about Bernie Madoff,' said Mary T. Browne, the renowned psychic and author, who counsels many heavy hitters on Wall Street, 'you need to talk to my friend Carmen Dell’Orefice.' She was referring to one of the original supermodels, the platinum-blonde beauty who had posed for Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, and Norman Parkinson, and who had been a muse to Salvador Dalí. She had first appeared on the cover of Vogue in 1946, when she was 15. 'Nobody can give you better insights into the Madoffs than Carmen,' Browne told me. 'I’ll see if she’ll talk to you.'
"On Valentine’s Day 1994, after four months of dating, (Real Estate giant Norman) Levy made what Carmen called his 'grandstand play' for her affection. He instructed her to meet him at the office of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, in the Lipstick Building, the oval red-granite monolith at 53rd Street and Third Avenue designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. 'Bring your checkbook,' he said.
"Carmen arrived early, she remembered. 'And there was a little man sitting behind a very big desk. Are you Mr. Madoff?, I asked.”
"'Yes, and I’m expecting you,' he said, his mouth pursed in what she would soon discover was his trademark smirk."
It only gets more interesting. The full story on Vanity Fair.
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