THE hottest spot in the Hamptons this Labor Day weekend is not the Ditch Plains surf break or the Blue Parrot restaurant, whose celebrity owners include Renée Zellweger.

It is Bernard L. Madoff’s beach house. As news spread in recent days that the 3,000-square-foot house on the dunes in Montauk that belonged to Mr. Madoff is up for sale for $8.75 million, it became the toughest place to get into since the Surf Lodge opened a Champagne-and-espadrilles bar last summer.

The United States Marshals Service, which is overseeing the sale of the house to benefit victims of Mr. Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme, has gamely taken on the role of real estate promoter. A marshal in a blue windbreaker offers a videotaped tour that was released to the news media during which he extols, in a “just the facts, ma’am” monotone, the property’s “panoramic ocean view,” and the master bedroom with an exercise bike, “where Bernard and Ruth Madoff lived when they were here in Montauk.”

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