SLEEP ON IT: Peter Madoff and wife Marion, who lived the high life on ill-gotten gains, got to keep their mattress and box spring, but little else. (
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Peter Madoff made his bed — and it’s about all the feds are allowing him to keep!
The prison-bound brother of Ponzi-scheming lowlife Bernie was forced with his wife to leave their posh Park Avenue home with nothing but clothes and a mattress and box spring, sources told The Post.
Federal officers shot down pleas by Peter and Marion Madoff to take the bulk of their stuff out of their freshly sold $4.6 million pad, the sources said.
“They wanted to take furniture, silverware and glasses — but the federal marshals packed up everything,” one source said. “They were surprised and shocked.”
Madoff, who is headed to prison next month, sold the luxury two-bedroom unit and moved to a one-bedroom, $3,200-a-month home on Rector Street in Battery Park City, sources said.
Federal marshals allowed the couple to take a few items — but nothing of great value. All profits from the sale of the multimillion-dollar apartment will go to the victims of the scheme.
It’s unclear if the feds will sell off the items the Madoffs had to leave behind.
Madoff, 67, admitted last year he played a role in his brother’s multibillion-dollar con.
He pleaded guilty to fraud — for falsifying records — in June and in December was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Before they left, Marion asked to take “daily-use stuff” such as plates to set up her new kitchen. But the feds even boxed up the bare necessities, sources said.
“Only now are they starting to feel the ramifications of what happened,” one source said.
The couple’s belongings were valuable — but that lifestyle will soon change for both of them.
“They are going from private planes and multiple homes to a tiny one-bedroom for Marion — and jail for Peter,” the source said.
In June, Madoff admitted to putting his wife on the payroll for the firm Bernard L. Madoff Securities — although she never worked there — and avoiding taxes. But he insisted he was never aware of the Ponzi scheme itself.
He worked alongside Bernie for nearly 40 years and earned roughly $40 million from 1998 to 2008 — much of which went to enable his extravagant lifestyle.
The couple bought the home at 975 Park Ave. for $4.1 million in 2004, then renovated the already upscale digs.
It now features a maid’s quarters, a 15-foot dining room and a fireplace — just a short walk from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The couple first left the building Dec. 26 and later returned to collect some items.
A lawyer from Chicago will now move into the unit.
Toni Haber, of Prudential Douglas Elliman real estate, represented the Park Avenue listing.
At his sentencing last month, Madoff said he was “deeply ashamed” and “profoundly sorry.”
US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that Madoff wouldn’t be incarcerated until Feb. 6 — leaving him free to attend his granddaughter’s bat mitzvah at the end of this month.
Bernie was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison for history’s largest-ever Ponzi scheme.
Marion could not be reached for comment yesterday.