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Blue pix turn Amber red

Amber Frey, the former mistress of alleged wife-killer Scott Peterson, is finally baring all - but not on the witness stand.

Nude photos of the 29-year-old massage therapist have surfaced on a porn Web site, provoking Frey's lawyer, Gloria Allred, to threaten legal action.

"This is a disgusting attempt to exploit Amber," Allred told us yesterday. "She's been very brave in coming forth to testify, and this is the price she's been forced to pay."

David Hans Schmidt, who has brokered Playboy and Penthouse pictorials of Paula Jones, Tonya Harding, Darva Conger, Divine Brown and Suzen Johnson, yesterday posted 27 pictures of Frey on his site.

Frey posed for the shots several years ago after seeing an ad placed by a photographer in Fresno, Calif. Allred maintains that "Amber has never given anyone the right to sell, publish or give away" the photos.

Schmidt insists that he has a signed release, which he plans to post on the subscription-only site (www.schmidtysworld.com). He admits that the photos - which show orthodontics-wearing Frey striking some awkward poses - aren't the biggest turn-on.

"We offered to rip up the photos and cut Amber in on the money if she'd pose again," he says. "Her lawyer said no."

Schmidt had shopped the shots to Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and Hustler's Larry Flynt, but says neither would pay his asking price: $500,000.

Instead, Schmidt turned to Marvad Corp., a Seattle-based Internet porn company. He says he closed the deal to set up the site at Dennis Hoff's Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada last month.

Jeter heads to isle with latest catch

Derek Jeter seems to be playing the field.

We told you recently that the Yankee star had been seeing Erica Mondor, a Florida beauty who works for a men's mag. But, according to a source, she's not the woman Jeter is bringing to $23,000-a-day Necker Island in November. (Necker Island, owned by Virgin honcho Richard Branson, is a 74-acre haven featuring a 12-bedroom villa that has a 20-member staff.)

We hear her name is Chantel Foster. Word is that she lives in New York and, like Jeter, comes from a racially mixed family.

She and Jeter are due to celebrate her 29th birthday during the week-long trip to the Carribean paradise. They're also looking to book a cottage in the British Virgin Islands for two days beforehand.

Jeter, who has dated Mariah Carey and Jordana Brewster, seems to like island getaways. A while back, we're told, he headed to the Bahamas with a woman identified as Misty Houston.

Geffen vs. receivin'

How much money is enough? For David Geffen, it's $4 billion.

Hollywood's richest man says he doesn't need any more moola, and will give away every dollar he makes from DreamWorks SKG, the movie studio he founded with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

"I have no interest in making money anymore," the mogul says in the new Forbes 400 issue. "Everything I make in the entertainment business will go to charity."

In 1992, Geffen helped his pal Calvin Klein by buying $62 million of his bonds until Klein could secure a loan to get them back. And Geffen's already pledged $200 million to the UCLA medical school.

Ethan on the move

Ethan Hawke is living in heartbreak hotel after being kicked out by wife Uma Thurman, according to reports.

The actor checked into a two-bedroom suite at the storied Chelsea Hotel on W. 23rd St. on Sept. 13, according to this week's Star magazine.

Hawke, 32, who has been linked to 22-year-old Canadian model Jen Perzow, is also photographed in the tab without his wedding ring.

The estranged couple was spotted - along with children Maya, 5, and Roan, 20 months - chatting briefly after a Central Park lecture by the Dalai Lama on Sunday. But that might be the last time the actors see each other for a while.

Thurman, 33, will attend the L.A. premiere of "Kill Bill" on Monday, before heading to Europe the next day for the movie's European press tour. Tuesday night, Hawke will join Marisa Tomei and Candace Bergen at Lincoln Center for a screening of "The Station Agent."

Doghouse to Waldorf

Ousted New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso had his tail between his legs at Tuesday's Top Dog Gala for the Animal Medical Center at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Having lapped up $140 million in pay, Grasso and his wife, Lori, snuck into the benefit through a back door. They sat with Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, the former head of the NYSE's compensation committee, and his wife, Elaine. Both Langones are fiercely loyal to Grasso.

Even when we tried to talk canines with him, Elaine yipped, "No!"

Happily, Henry Kissinger was willing to talk about his pooch, a black Lab named Abigail who, he asserted, can speak

Spanish and Italian and is learning Latin. Emcee Barbara Walters said, "I have a beige Havanese, whose name is Cha Cha Cha. They were favored by the Cuban aristocracy. Like them, my dog is in exile."

Touched by 'Angels'

Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" is the most important play brought to the screen in 20 years, drama critic John Lahr told a New Yorker Festival audience this past weekend, referring to Mike Nichols' upcoming TV miniseries.

The crowd was wowed by a sneak peek at a scene between Al Pacino, who plays a terminally ill (and hallucinating) Roy Cohn while Jeffrey Wright, portraying an angel as well as his nurse, describes a heaven without him.

To be shown on HBO in December, "Angels" is Pacino's first stint on the tube and his first time working with Meryl Streep. The cast also includes Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker.

Nichols said 80% of a movie's success is in the writing. That was the perfect segue to a panel on scripts, at which the ever-witty Nora Ephron, Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List"), Stephen Schiff ("Lolita") and Robert Towne ("Chinatown") described their methods. When Schiff offered that "screenwriting is really, really, really fun," Towne and Ephron whipped their heads around to face each other. Said Ephron: "It can be heartbreaking."

Surveillance

JEN AND Ben have been shopping again. We hear that Mr. Affleck and Ms. Lopez, who normally favor Bentleys, picked out a pickup truck at a dealership in Savannah, Ga., yesterday ...

WESLEY CLARK was spotted having a word with Tom Selleck yesterday morning at the Regency. A rep for Selleck says the actor, an independent who has reputation for leaning right, simply ran into the Democratic presidential front-runner and said hello ...

WE LOVE the optimists at Buster's Garage, the barbecue joint set to open tonight on West Broadway at Worth St. Someone has already pinned the first bra over the bar.

With Suzanne Rozdeba
and Ben Widdicombe



Originally published on September 25, 2003

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