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No funeral, just cremation for Mark Madoff

The body of Mark Madoff, who killed himself on the second anniversary of his father Bernie’s arrest for a massive Ponzi scheme, will be cremated without any funeral service, sources told The Post today.

“He is going to be cremated at the family’s wishes,” the source said, hours after Mark’s body was released by the Medical Examiner’s Office to a Manhattan funeral home. “No services, no viewing. The family doesn’t want a viewing.”

Mark Madoff, 46, hanged himself with a dog leash Saturday in his SoHo apartment on the second anniversary of his father’s arrest.

His death was officially ruled a suicide.

A funeral director at the Andrett Funeral Home-Gramercy Park Memorial Chapel took the body today from the Medical Examiner’s Office.

Bernard Madoff, 72, is serving a 150-year sentence for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in US history.

His lawyer said Monday would not seek to attend his son’s funeral, a decision that is apparently moot at this point.

Mark’s body was discovered after his wife, Stephanie — who was in Florida with their 4-year-old daughter, Audrey — received alarming e-mails from her despondent husband, and she asked her stepfather, high-powered lawyer Martin London, to go to the residence and check on him.

Mark had not spoken with his disgraced dad or his mother, Ruth, since he and his brother alerted federal authorities to Bernie’s epic crimes.

Mark Madoff had long been despondent over the scandal, which turned his family name to mud and rendered him unable to get a respectable Wall Street job.

Mark and Andrew Madoff have never been criminally charged, and they claimed to have had no knowledge of their dad’s scam, despite both having made millions of dollars while working at his Manhattan financial firm.

Still, the brothers became the targets of lawsuits seeking recovery of the stolen money.