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Nothing has been settled at Us Weekly.

As staffers are waiting for the $100 million deal for the title to be sold to American Media Inc. to be finalized — the early buzz is that longtime publisher Vicci Lasdon Rose will be offered a gig with AMI.

The agreement was unveiled on Wednesday last week — news first reported by nypost.com — after an earlier deal to sell to LA Times owner Tronc unraveled at the eleventh hour.

Us Editor-in-Chief Michael Steele is said to be on shakier ground with the new regime.

One source said AMI CEO David Pecker “definitely seems interested in sales, video and digital. And the rest — edit, photo, design, not so much.”

One insider told Media Ink that “everyone is waiting for the ax to swing, which we are hearing they will do next week … ink-stained wretches expect a bullet in the back of the head.”

Layoffs, insiders are whispering, won’t approach the 100-person level initially feared — but still dozens are expected to be out of a job.

One source close to AMI said that up to 80 people — about 70 percent of the workforce — will be offered jobs.

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