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His cancer went into remission, but returned in 2011, which he attributed to stress from the fallout over his father's crimes.
Multiple obituaries report that Andrew Madoff's mantle cell lymphoma returned in October 2012, not 2011.
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This sentence gets the timing of Madoff's cancer recurrence wrong. Credible contemporaneous reports say his lymphoma relapsed in October 2012. The Associated Press obituary states: "The disease returned in October 2012," and the Los Angeles Times obituary reports the same. Reuters also reported that Madoff disclosed the recurrence in April 2013, which is inconsistent with a 2011 return date. So the claim that the cancer "returned in 2011" is contradicted by multiple reliable sources.
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- Andrew Madoff dies of cancer in NYC - WTOP/AP
Andrew Madoff was diagnosed with the rare form of cancer in 2003 but went into remission... The disease returned in October 2012, and he told People magazine he felt "blindsided."
- Andrew Madoff dies at 48; son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff - Los Angeles Times
The disease returned in October 2012.
- Bernard Madoff's son Andrew dies after long battle with cancer - Reuters via Yahoo News
Last year, Andrew Madoff told the magazine People he would "never forgive" his father for his crimes and blamed a recurrence of his cancer on the stress caused by his father's arrest and conviction.
Before his death, Madoff and Hooper set up an agency that specialized in grief counseling.
The business Andrew Madoff and Catherine Hooper operated was Black Umbrella, an emergency-preparedness/disaster-management company, not a grief-counseling agency.
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Reliable profiles and obituaries describe the company Andrew Madoff worked on with Catherine Hooper as Black Umbrella, a firm focused on emergency preparedness, disaster planning, and crisis management. ABC News called it "a high-end disaster management company" and said Hooper was president while Andrew was director of operations. Fortune likewise described Black Umbrella as Hooper's "emergency-preparedness company," and the Boston Globe obituary said they operated "a provider of emergency preparedness services." Those descriptions directly contradict the article's statement that they set up an agency specializing in grief counseling.
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- Disaster Plans for the Wealthy, Courtesy of the Madoff Fiance - ABC News
Now Hooper is the president of Black Umbrella, a high-end disaster management company based in New York City, and her fiance, Andrew, is director of operations.
- Stand by your Madoff | Fortune
Black Umbrella, Hooper's emergency-preparedness company... He works 50 to 60 hours a week as director of operations at the company, which is 100% owned by Hooper.
- Andrew Madoff, son of convicted financier, dies at 48 - The Boston Globe
With Hooper, he operated Black Umbrella, a provider of emergency preparedness services that she had founded.
In 2017, the lawsuit concluded, and Andrew's estate was left with $1 million.
The 2017 settlement left Andrew Madoff's estate with $2 million, not $1 million.
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Contemporaneous coverage of the 2017 settlement says Andrew Madoff's estate kept $2 million. JTA, citing Reuters and the Manhattan court filing, reported that the agreement would leave Andrew's estate with $2 million and Mark's with $1.75 million. Other reports on the same filing likewise state that Andrew's estate was left with $2 million. That directly contradicts the article's statement that the estate was left with only $1 million.
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- $23 million recovered from estates of Bernard Madoff's late sons - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The agreement would leave the estate of Andrew Madoff, who died of cancer in 2014 at 48, with $2 million, and the estate of Mark Madoff, who committed suicide in 2010 at 46, with $1.75 million.
- Madoff sons' estates to hand over millions in legal settlement - CBS News
The deal leaves Mark Madoff's estate with $1.75 million and Andrew Madoff's estate with $2 million.
- Estates of Madoff's dead sons reach $23 million U.S. settlement - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Under the deal, the estates will transfer all cash, business entities, and business interests to the trustee, leaving Mark Madoff's family with $1.75 million and Andrew Madoff's family with $2 million, the trustee said Monday in a court filing in Manhattan.