Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer On ‘Wizard of Lies,’ Bernie Madoff Scandal | TODAY

The HBO movie “The Wizard of Lies,” dramatizing the Bernie Madoff financial fraud that bilked investors out of $65 billion, stars Robert De Niro as Madoff and Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Ruth. Pfeiffer tells TODAY that while “the court of public opinion” believes that Ruth and Madoff’s sons were involved in the fraud, the reality “couldn’t be further from the truth.”