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Associated Press - July 2, 2009 7:25 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's wife asked to stay in her $7 million Manhattan penthouse and wanted to take a fur coat with her before federal marshals seized the property.
A federal official informed of Ruth Madoff's departure from her apartment Thursday tells The Associated Press that when marshals said she couldn't take her coat, she left carrying just a straw bag.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to discuss the details of Ruth Madoff's departure.
Marshals seized the property at about noon Thursday; a judge says it must be sold to help pay back investors who lost billions to Madoff's financial fraud. Bernard Madoff was sentenced earlier this week to 150 years in prison.
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