Celebrity | Uma Thurman Uma Thurman, Fiancé Split Somehow, Cindy Adams ties breakup with Arpad Busson to Bernie Madoff By Evann Gastaldo Posted Dec 8, 2009 10:00 AM CST Copied Uma Thurman, left, accompanied by her fiance Arpad Busson arrives for the dinner birthday party of former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela in central London, Wednesday June 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) The engagement is off between Uma Thurman and hedge fund manager Arpad Busson. Thurman, once-divorced and mother to two children by Ethan Hawke, announced her engagement to the financier—who has two children himself with Elle MacPherson—in the summer of 2008. Cindy Adams theorizes the breakup could have somehow been sparked by Busson losing a bundle in the Bernie Madoff scheme, she writes in the New York Post. Read These Next Trump's jokes to 'people I hate' aren't all hits. A new 'No Kings' protest is on the calendar. Nude images mistakenly published in DOJ's Epstein files release. Amid wave of cancelations, Trump says he'll close Kennedy Center. Report an error