Oh, if these walls could talk.
Arch-fraudster Bernard Madoff’s former penthouse apartment on the Upper East Side is going on sale — for $7.5 million or more — and these new photos are giving prospective buyers a taste of what it might like be to own a pricey piece of infamy.
The US Marshals Service, which as part of a forfeiture order seized the apartment and other real estate belonging to the Ponzi scammer, allowed media to photograph the elegant duplex on East 64th Street near Lexington Avenue.
Its contents — expensive and otherwise — will be separately auctioned off.
Inside the living room, shown here, a huge Oriental carpet sets the stage for ornate ottomans, chairs and sofas. A baby grand piano sits tucked into a corner.
In another room, an antique wooden desk sits under a window with his its chair now empty of Madoff’s larcenous rump.
Madoff, 71, lived in the apartment under house arrest after his December bust. But he left it for good in May when he was jailed for 150 years after pleading guilty to operating his multibillion-dollar fraud for years
His wife, Ruth, vacated the residence in July when marshals executed the seizure. She’s currently living at an undisclosed location.
The Madoffs’ former beach house in Montauk, LI, was placed on the market earlier this month, with an asking price of $8.75 million. A number of would-be buyers already have checked out that property, which is decidedly modest by higher-end Hamptons standards.
A third property seized from the couple after Bernie took his plea — a Palm Beach mansion with an assessed value of $8.5 million — also will be sold.
Ruth last week made a bid to have a $13,821 Palm Beach tax-refund check made out to her husband for that property reissued in her name — although her lawyer said that was not an effort to take more than the $2.5 million federal authorities allowed her to keep in a settlement agreement.
The proceeds of the sales of the homes and their contents will be placed in a fund to partially reimburse Madoff’s hundreds of victims.
Bernie now lives in a North Carolina federal prison.
dan.mangan@nypost.com