January 26, 2009 --
GIVE Countess LuAnn de Lesseps credit for continuously reinventing herself. The wacky star of "Real Housewives of NYC," notorious for her crotch-grabbing antics in the Hamptons last summer, is now selling herself as an authority on sophistication.
De Lesseps, a part-Algonquin Indian who grew up in the Connecticut suburbs and became a registered nurse before morphing into modeling and marrying into royalty, has penned "Class With the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair," out in April from Gotham. "Social graces have been tossed out the window with the plastic containers," she writes. "And yet, I sense a growing desire for manners, refinement and consideration."
Hopefully, she's given herself a few lessons. Last August, she stunned guests at the Southampton wedding of BlueStar Jets owner Todd Rome to Vanessa Brahms at Nello Summertimes by commandeering the mike from Andy Hilfiger's band, singing two songs and knocking over the drum set.
Then she tried "to make out with women and married men. A pregnant wife caught her husband in the act, stormed off and walked home in disgust," our source said.
Her husband, French aristocrat Alexandre Count de Lesseps, "was seen throwing her to the ground in the parking lot. She wasn't just kissing the married men; she was also grabbing their [crotches]," we reported.
LuAnn angrily denied the behavior, just as she pooh-poohed a story that she warbled an over-the-top, Marilyn Monroe-style "Happy Birthday" to a complete stranger at the Manor Lounge in Chicago.
In her upcoming book, she writes: "As far as I'm concerned, class is an attitude. It's all about confidence and is evident in the way you treat other people." She adds: "You behave differently with your dry cleaner . . . or your husband of 10 years or a man you want to attract. But it is all seduction. Though passionate seductions are the greatest, it is everyday seductions that make you feel alive."
Hillarious!
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