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This Elle Hath A Fury Like A Woman Scorned

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

Elle Macpherson says she’s never even met the two men arrested in an extortion attempt against her, much less used one as her “boy toy,” as his lawyer claimed.

“All of this is completely untrue,” said the actress/supermodel, who has filed a defamation lawsuit against the attorney.

“You can only imagine how difficult this has been for my family to read these lies and how humiliating it has been for me to be, first of all, a victim of burglary, then of extortion, and now continuing with slander.”

Michael Mischler and William Holt are charged with trying to extort $80,000 from Macpherson by threatening to post nude photos of her on the Internet.

The pictures were part of the haul from a June burglary at her Los Angeles home. Both men have pleaded innocent.

Loose talk

Ivana Trump, on latest hubby Riccardo Mazzucchelli filing for divorce: “I am relieved. I can’t spell anyway, so better to be Trump than Mazzucchelli.”

She could tell Elle all about meatheads

Sally Struthers turns 49 today.

Actually, it does seem like an illusion

David Copperfield, meanwhile, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the French magazine Paris Match, for claiming in a recent story that he paid supermodel Claudia Schiffer $300,000 to pretend to be his fiancee. Says Schiffer: “People don’t want to believe our love is real because everything seems so perfect.”

So, would that qualify as a Demi-stration?

And Bruce Willis and Demi Moore are suing The Star tabloid for claiming that their marriage is on the rocks, including an allegation she was having an affair with Johnny Depp. Willis even paraded around at one of his Planet Hollywood restaurants, in Indianapolis, with a sign professing his undying love for Moore.

It’ll probably be a chip off the old blockhead

Suzen Johnson, who let The Globe videotape her hotel trysts with Frank Gifford, now tells the tabloid she’s “terrified” that she’s pregnant, because they didn’t use a condom and her period is two months late.

And we know which dish got the worst of it

Whitney Houston, back home in Florida after her vacation on the Isle of Capri, insists that her bad-boy hubby, Bobby Brown, had nothing to do with that nasty facial cut she suffered. Her publicist says Houston slipped in the dining room of their yacht, and “thinks she cut herself on a dinner plate that broke when she was trying to break her fall.”

Bet your hero ain’t taking those vows, boy

James Brolin’s actor son, Josh, says he’s not particularly thrilled that his father might marry Barbra Streisand. “I’d be more impressed if he’d marry Willie Nelson,” the younger Brolin said. “But I guess that would be pretty weird. It’s just that I’m a Willie Nelson fan.”

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