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They’ve got their pasties in a twist.

A burlesque beauty is claiming she’s being blackballed by colleagues spreading lies that she sexually assaulted a fellow dancer.

Sydni Deveraux, aka “The Golden Glamazon,” wants $500,000 in damages and a public apology from a titillating trio with whom she used to perform at Manhattan’s Bathtub Gin and other clubs.

Glamazon claims buxom Anna Bridgforth, also known as “Boo Bess,” brunette bombshell Louisa Versaw, aka “Dolly Debutante,” and Lydia Kornegay-Baez, known as “Sin in an Hourglass” are stealing her gigs by ruining her rep.

The women said burlesque company Wasabassco, which organizes strip shows, ignored an accusation that the muscular, 6-foot-2 Deveraux had sexually assaulted a fellow performer in a Nomad hotel room in 2015, Deveraux claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed last month.

The Post is not naming the alleged victim.

Devereaux denies the assault charge, claiming it was consensual sex amidst a long-running friendship with the fellow dancer.

But things got nippy between the bosom buddies last year, when the alleged victim suddenly gave Deveraux the cold shoulder.

Eventually, a Wasabassco producer asked the purported victim what was going on, prompting her to suddenly complain that her night with Deveraux three years prior was “basically assault.”

Then the other dancers stuck their stilettos into the fray, with a “serendipitous and calculated” defamation campaign against her, Deveraux said.

The dancers spread their lies through texts, emails and public Facebook messages, Deveraux said.

The smear campaign was a scheme by the other dancers to divert Deveraux’s gigs to themselves, said the athletic strip-tease queen, known for her “rock n roll” stage style and remembered for her performance, wearing almost nothing but beads, at the 2013 Miss Exotic World competition.

Interior of the Bathtub Gin speakeasy bar in Chelsea.Daniel McKnightInterior of the Bathtub Gin speakeasy bar in Chelsea.Daniel McKnight

The three self-proclaimed #MeToo warriors took over Deveraux’s gigs at Bathtub Gin, the Ninth Avenue spot that brags about its “beauty, brains and bustier” acts on Tuesday and Sunday nights, she claims.

Versaw, who also performs as “The Delicious Double D” and says she draws influence from “1960s glamour queens and gold digging hussies throughout history,” and Kornegay-Baez, who was crowned 2017’s Miss Exotic World/Queens of Burlesque in Las Vegas, got regular work at the gin mill known for its boozy brunches and brass-colored bathtub adored by selfie-loving patrons.

The switcheroo surely left customers steamed, Deveraux noted in her legal filing.

“Customers were misled, and likely disappointed to be entertained only by defendants, and not Ms. Deveraux,” according to the lawsuit filed against Bridgforth, Versaw and Kornegay-Baez.

The Glamazon — who describes her act as an “entertaining mix of charm, finesse and sophisticated musicality” and who offers “just a little smut” in photos and videos of herself for $5 to $10 a pop online — says she lost 60 percent of her income because of the plot.

The malicious move to defame Deveraux was also motivated by jealousy, the Glamazon declared.

“They were frustrated that … a black woman in a position of power … who had been making her ascent to the top of the burlesque ranks, reigned over and had been the main attraction both within Wasabassco … and throughout the burlesque market,” Deveraux charged.

Deveraux insisted in legal papers the accusation she attacked her co-performer was “patently and demonstrably false” and she “had not, and has never, committed assault or sexual assault.”

The alleged victim, who is not a defendant, did not return messages seeking comment.

Versaw and Kornegay-Baez did not return messages. Bridgforth declined comment. Wasabassco, which is not named in the suit, did not return a message.

Deveraux and the purported victim had a history of flirting “before and after” Deveraux attended the bisexual victim’s March 2015 wedding to a man, the Glamazon said in court papers.

The two women, who had done years of erotic modeling and burlesque gigs together, “did not go on dates, other than a friendly lunch or two, but did make out in a car once in or around early to mid-2015” before they had consensual sex twice — in the Nomad hotel and in Bermuda — in a roughly 60-day span, Deveraux said in the lawsuit.

While they canoodled in the Nomad hotspot during the night of the alleged “assault,” Devereaux claimed in court papers, co-performer Versaw was in the room. The alleged victim was even taking “selfies on her own phone and Ms. Deveraux’s phone, while they were in bed together (alone and with Ms. Versaw),” the suit says.

The next day, the alleged victim’s husband texted his approval of the affair to Deveraux, noting his wife had told him about their tryst.

The victim also posted on various social media accounts before, during and after her visits with Deveraux, and the women texted each other “hundreds of times” during the two-month span between their sexual encounters.

The victim also invited Deveraux to her May 2016 going away party when she moved out of state, Deveraux said

In the following years nothing seemed amiss, as the women exchanged friendly public social media and text messages, and worked together more than a dozen times, Deveraux noted.

The relationship “was friendly, cordial and professional,” Deveraux maintains in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

Now, as the burlesque world ostracizes her, Glamazon feels alone.

“Living out in the open as a woman with sexual agency has always been supremely important to Ms. Deveraux, and defendants’ extreme conduct has stripped Ms. Deveraux of that agency, causing her to lose sleep and suffer panic attacks from anxiety, stress and depression,” the suit says.

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