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  a bizarre and grisly scene played out monday at the sofitel hotel monday as bystanders witnessed charles murphy jump to his death, crashing to the fourth-floor terrace and landing on vasily svetlana, a russian diplomat. svetlana was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. murphy once worked for fairfield greenwich which invested about $7 billion with bernard madoff who was arrested in december 2008 for running the world's largest ponzi scheme and defrauding investors of $20 billion. he pleaded guilty to fraud charges. now 78 he is serving 150 years in a federal prison in north carolina. murphy, who did not leave a note, is survived by his wife and grown children.
article_headline: hedge fund exec whose former firm was linked to madoff jumps to his death, kills russian diplomat