NEW YORK — The founder of an investment fund that lost millions with Bernard Madoff has been found dead at his Manhattan office of a possible suicide.

A spokeswoman with the New York Medical Examiner says Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet's death was reported today.

A French newspaper is reporting that de la Villehuchet committed suicide. The medical examiner spokeswoman says it has not determined the cause of death yet.

Authorities found de la Villehuchet today with no pulse at his office of Access International Advisors, located on Madison Avenue, a couple of blocks from Rockefeller Center.

Madoff is accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme that wiped out investors around the world, with big funds like de la Villehuchet's being especially hard hit.