Ruth Madoff may never be prosecuted in connection with her husband’s decades-long Ponzi scheme, but her days living “a life of splendor” could be over.

It looks like court-appointed Madoff trustee Irving Picard is going after the whole shebang: Not just Bernard Madoff’s Manhattan penthouse and home in the Hamptons, but also a good chunk of the wealth accumulated by family members.

British investigators said Friday that Ruth Madoff got a $2 million payment from the London division of her husband’s securities firm just weeks before he was arrested for securities fraud.

Authorities plan to go after more than $100 million in real estate, cash, art, autos, boats and other property owned by Ruth Madoff and her husband Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty last week to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

This is the week that Bernard Madoff, the former NASDAQ chairman accused of perpetrating the biggest fraud in U.S. history, will confront his victims for the first time – and perhaps even acknowledge his own culpability.

The wife of accused swindler Bernard Madoff argues that their $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets belong to her.

The wife of accused Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff pulled millions out of a brokerage account only days before her husband was charged with securities fraud - including $10 million on the eve of his arrest, Massachusetts’ top securities regulator said Wednesday.