Mr. de la Villehuchet, 65 - the director of a hedge fund that had $1.4 billion invested with Bernie Madoff - was found dead in his Manhattan office reports DealBook.
Mr. de la Villehuchet, 65, was pronounced dead Tuesday morning, and a New York City Police spokesman, Paul Browne, told DealBook that he had apparently committed suicide. He was found with wounds to his arms, with one leg propped up on the desk and a trash can nearby to catch blood. (Read more about Mr. de la Villehuchet here.)
He had been trying to recover the money that Access International raised in Europe and invested through Mr. Madoff’s business, according to La Tribune, which first reported the news, citing an unnamed source.
The name of the hedge fund was Access International Advisors LLC - they had called the news of Madoff's arrest a "shocking development" when the news broke earlier this month. NBC has a brief news report on the apparent suicide in the clip below from Hulu.
