widower

[Victor]

Found in the caption of the photo. The second sentence is from the body
of the article.

Novel use or a typo?


http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/27/2008-12-27_day_before_husbands_suicide_wife_of_fren.html

    Claudine de la Villehuchet, *widower* of the Billionaire hedge fund
manager who committed suicide after losing money in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
...
    His *widow* has been in seclusion at their home in New Rochelle, N.Y.

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