The only thing that made you less despicable than the worst human ever was that you seemed to be a good husband who protected your wife and possible co-conspirator.  This was your only redemptive quality. It elevated you from crook to thief.

Ok, Bernie.  Look at you.  It wasn’t your good looks or witty repartee that landed you a mistress.  You are a shlub.  But you had a lot of other people’s money.  And for a long time, it bought you a mirror that when you looked in it, Superman looked back.

NEW YORK – Bernard Madoff‘s decades-long fraud might not have been his only secret. A new book says he had a two-decade affair with one of his investors.

That’s in a memoir by Sheryl Weinstein titled “Madoff’s Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me.” It goes on sale Aug. 25.

A spokesman for book publisher St. Martin’s Press said Friday the relationship between Weinstein and Madoff spanned more than 20 years. Both were married.

Madoff is serving 150 years in prison for defrauding investors. Weinstein says she met him when she was chief financial officer for the charitable women’s organization Hadassah.

Madoff attorney Ira Sorkin says he hopes the author “was more discreet with her investment obligations than she has allegedly been with her sex life.”

An attorney for Madoff’s wife, Ruth Madoff, says his client didn’t know about the “alleged affair.”