Alexandra Penney

Alexandra Penney is the best selling author who has written such books as: How to Make Love to a Man, Why Men Stray and Why Men Stay: How to Keep Your Man Monogamous, and How to Make Love to Each Other. She is also the editor for Self magazine.

Penney invested her life savings in investments managed by Bernard Madoff. She has subsequently lost all of her money. Penney has written that she is being forced to sell her West Palm Beach cottage and has been forced to lodge at the Hampton Inn instead of the Ritz-Carlton.The Daily Beast: The Bag Lady's Papers, Part III (January 9, 2008)

• "I'm sincerely, and this is the understatement of the year, appalled that this man is not in prison."CNN.com: Life savings gone... (January 9, 2009)

• "There was this incredible lift of the economic picture. And I think that the crash of the stock market and the crash of Bernie Madoff together are really emblematic that the system is the culprit. Madoff is emblematic of the system, but there's something very wrong with the system."CNN.com: Life savings gone... (January 9, 2009)