One million bucks buys a lot of toupees even if they’re for Burt Reynolds. And that’s how much he was willing to pay to prevent his private life with a cocktail waitress named Pamela Seals from going public.

Florida- Burt Reynolds is seeking deliverance from a former girlfriend who allegedly threatened to accuse the actor of abuse if he didn’t pay her millions.

Ripping a page from the Bill O’Reilly playbook, the “Smokey and the Bandit” star yesterday filed a preemptive extortion suit against Pamela Seals, his live-in girlfriend for nearly a decade.

The suit, filed in Palm Beach County, Fla., charges that Seals, 48, falsely accused Reynolds, 68, of yelling at her and stomping on her toes. According to Reynolds, Seals vowed to go public with the charges if he didn’t agree to support her and her mother, as well as cut her in on his spread in Jupiter, Fla.

Reynolds’ lawyer, Bob Montgomery, said Seals turned down the actor’s settlement offer of $1 million. Montgomery argued that, under Florida law, Seals is entitled to nothing since she and Reynolds were never married.

Seals’ lawyer, Mark Maynor, claimed in an interview yesterday that Reynolds had physically and emotionally abused Seals during a 16-year relationship.

Maynor denied Reynolds offered $1 million. He said Reynolds reneged on promises buy Seals a $500,000 townhouse and reimburse her for $50,000 in credit card charges.

While the lawsuit hails Reynolds as a “nationally and internationally known public figure,” it says Seals “had little or no formal education and was working as a bar maid/manager” at a Tampa restaurant. The complaint also seeks to stop Seals from suing Reynolds in California, where palimony laws are more lenient.