Loot in the booty?

The thieves who fleeced $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum may have hidden the precious pieces up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France.

That eye-popping hypothesis was made by America’s most infamous jewelry thief, Larry Lawton, who spoke with The Post about the headline-grabbing heist.

“I hope they had enough money to literally lie low and get out of the country,” Lawton, 64, said of the four thieves who pulled off the audacious — if somewhat haphazard — Paris robbery over the weekend.

Lawton looted 25 jewelry stores across America’s East Coast during the 1980s and ’90s, netting a total haul estimated at $18 million. He often zip-tied terrified store owners and customers during the daytime raids.

With his own experience as a reference, Lawton revealed that if the Louvre bandits — whom he described as “amateurs” and “idiots” — escaped on an airplane, they wouldn’t have put the jewels in their hand luggage.

“Believe it or not, depending on the size, you could take some of that jewelry apart and literally ‘suitcase’ it,” Lawton said, explaining that the normally conventional term involves “inserting something in your rectum.”

“You have seven extra inches in your anus, and the reason I know this is [because] I’ve actually had a knife up my a–,” the ex-con shockingly confessed, recalling his past wild life and crimes.

“You put a knife in half of a [travel] toothbrush holder,” he graphically continued, “and put masking tape on the other end.”

Once one of the country’s most wanted men, Lawton constantly evaded capture thanks to immaculate planning and precision.

However, the native New Yorker says the Louvre robbers don’t possess the same prowess; it’s been reported that the four thieves made major mistakes during the heist.

One of the men allegedly left behind a glove, while another dropped Empress Eugenie’s imperial crown during the hasty getaway, damaging the historic headwear.

“They’re not professionals like I was,” he added. “I robbed 25 f–king stores and I never dropped the jewelry, no less a f–king crown!”

Additionally, the group failed an evidence-destroying attempt to set fire to a work truck and ladder that they used while posing as construction workers during their break-in.

Because of their errors, Lawton believes that the thieves will eventually be identified and arrested — even if they’ve fled France with the loot up their booties.

The reformed felon conjectured that at least one of the robbers is a Parisian local with some sort of connection to the famed museum.

According to Lawton, someone at the Louvre likely shared information, possibly unwittingly, with a robber, who then used it in nefarious ways.

Lawton says serious planning goes into every robbery, admitting he “cased over 1,000 jewelry stores,” but only looted 25.

One of the most outlandish heists he planned to commit was a daring raid of the H.Stern store at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

“I cased this place for… over six, eight weeks, and I was so close to robbing it,” he recalled. “We had a plan. We had dynamite. It was fake, but it looked so good. We [planned to put] a dynamite strap around the owner and I was gonna take the family hostage the night before, and [tell the owner] ‘If you even open your f–king mouth, I’m gonna get out of the car and blow you up or your family if my partner doesn’t get a phone call from me every 15 minutes. We’re gonna kill your kids.'”

But Lawton got “spooked” by the violent and elaborate plan, ultimately deciding to call off the caper.

“Thank God I didn’t do it,” he admitted.

Meanwhile, the felon — who was eventually arrested in 1996 and served 11 years behind bars — says the most crucial part of being a jewelry thief is being able to fence the stolen goods.

Given the rarity of the Louvre jewels, he believes it may be hard for the criminals to offload the items — even if they’re taken apart and broken down.

However, despite their errors and the fear they’re now likely feeling, Lawton said the foursome were no doubt elated after exiting the building with eight items.

“You are f–king juiced,” he said, describing the feeling of carrying out a raid. “Your adrenaline is flowing.

“I’ve done every drug in the book, but there’s no high like walking out of a jewelry store knowing you got $1 million in a f–king bag.”

Larry Lawton told The Post that “the jewelry business is a scumbag business,” but diamond heists have been given a glamorous polish in Hollywood productions such as “To Catch a Thief,” “Hot Rock” and “Ocean’s 8.”

However, a sizable number of famous real-life jewel thieves look as if they’ve been lifted straight from the screen. Below, a look at some of the most famous and fashionable:

Known as “The Godmother,” Hannington was famous for smuggling jewels out of stores by swallowing them. The fur-loving felon, who operated in London during the 1980s, recently had her life and crimes turned into an eponymous CW and ITV miniseries starring Sophie Turner.

The tall, striking Serbian basketball player turned to crime after her career as a professional athlete ended. As a female member of the international Pink Panthers jewel thief network, she was the mastermind behind a series of robberies in Greece. Ćirković, now 56, was eventually arrested and spent five years in prison.

Dubbed “Diamond Doris,” Payne first hit headlines after being convicted for stealing a 10-carat diamond ring in Monte Carlo back in the 1970s. Her crime career continued over the ensuing decades, and she was arrested in 2011, at age 80, for stealing a diamond ring from a Macy’s department store.

The handsome surfer, dubbed “Murph the Surf,” was involved in the infamous 1964 burglary at the American Museum of Natural History. With two accomplices, Murphy stole 24 precious gems in what was dubbed “the Jewel Heist of the Century.” He was apprehended two days later and spent less than three years in prison for the crime. A movie about his life, “Live A Little, Steal A Lot,” was made in 1975.