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 JD Vance's war skepticism is becoming an issue. 'Miracle fruit' is helping chemo patients taste again. Original member of O'Jays may have been victim of serial killer. North Korea just reportedly fired 10 missiles toward the sea. Report an error