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Imagining Madoff
''Imagining Madoff'' is a 2010 play by playwright Deb Margolin that tells the story of an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff, the admitted operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, and his victims. Margolin had originally planned to use Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as a character representing a victim, but was obliged by legal threats to substitute a fictional character, whom she named Solomon Galkin.
==Elie Wiesel's response to the play==
Wiesel had been one of Madoff's most notable victims, having lost his life savings to Madoff's fraud in addition to more than $15 million in losses to a charitable foundation Wiesel operated, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, with Wiesel calling Madoff a "thief, scoundrel, criminal".〔Strom, Stephanie. ("Elie Wiesel Levels Scorn at Madoff" ), ''The New York Times'', February 26, 2009. Accessed July 19, 2010.〕 Wiesel had been chosen as a character by Margolin because she felt that he was "synonymous with decency, morality, the struggle for human dignity and kindness".〔Horwitz, Jane. ("Theater J pulls Madoff play after objections from activist Elie Wiesel" ), ''The Washington Post'', May 19, 2010. Accessed July 20, 2010.〕 In Margolin's original version of the play, the Elie Wiesel character was intended to be a moral authority and key character in the play, in which he recounted his concentration camp experiences and provided meditations on repentance. Margolin sent a copy of the play to Wiesel, who responded in April 2010 with a letter calling the play "obscene" and "defamatory" and threatening legal action to prevent the play from being staged.〔Healy, Patrick. ("The Play on Madoff, Without Wiesel" ), ''The New York Times'', July 19, 2010. Accessed July 19, 2010.〕 In an interview with National Public Radio on May 20, 2010, attorney Richard Lehv expressed his opinion that Wiesel would have had little chance in court of preventing Margolin from using him as a character, noting that "it's a free country. You can make a public figure a character in a work of fiction."〔(When Truth Meets Fiction, Lawyers Intervene ), National Public Radio, May 20, 2010. Accessed July 19, 2010.〕
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