The thousands of victims scammed by Wall Street fraudster Bernard Madoff include some of the world's top banks, richest business people and most celebrated stars. Among those identified by investigators and news reports as victims, or who have revealed they were swindled, are:

INDIVIDUALS

Veteran cable talk show host Larry King

DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg

Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar

Hollywood actor John Malkovich

Spain's richest woman, businesswoman Alicia Koplowitz

Real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News and US News & World Report

US Senator Frank Lautenberg

Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, respectively owner and co-owner of the New York Mets baseball team

CHARITIES

Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg's charitable foundation

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

Britain's Man Group investment fund

Royal Bank of Scotland

HSBC banking

France's BNP-Paribas

Netherland's Fortis Bank

The EIM hedge fund run by Arpad Busson, billionaire boyfriend of Hollywood actress Uma Thurman

Spain's Banco Santander

Luxalpha fund, a Luxembourg UBS bank fund that handled some of French billionaire L'Oreal owner Liliane Bettencourt's assets

AFP

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