WWW- Liza Minnelli’s bodyguard sounds as though he needed protection from her – charging that the aging songbird forced him to have sex with her and regularly beat him.

In a bombshell $100 million lawsuit, M’Hammed Soumayah, 58, portrays the “Cabaret” star as a violent, sex-starved maniac who harassed him with her bedroom demands until he relented out of fear of losing his $238,000-a-year job.

“During the course of his employment [Soumayah], without his consent, was forced to engage in sexual relations with Minnelli,” claims the bodyguard’s Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, unsealed yesterday by a judge.

It marks the latest bizarre chapter in the star-crossed life of Minnelli, whose estranged husband, David Gest, is suing for $10 million, accusing her of beating him during booze-fueled binges.

Soumayah’s lawsuit contends that the married father of two, who began working for Minnelli in 1994, has “physical evidence” of the alleged strong-arm tryst that he’s keeping under wraps. The suit charges that Soumayah, who also was the singer’s chauffeur and personal assistant, was “hit and assaulted” repeatedly by Minnelli.

“Fearing loss of his lucrative job, [Soumayah] tolerated Minnelli’s violent outbursts and did not complain about them to her or anyone else,” the suit states.

But Minnelli, 58, ended up firing Soumayah anyway in June after he refused to take a 50% pay cut, his lawsuit contends.

When the Tony and Oscar-winning actress got wind that the bodyguard was considering a lawsuit, she called him on his cell phone and invited him to her house, where she tried to seduce him again, the suit claims.

Minnelli told Soumayah that he “was the love of her life” and started to kiss him and ask him why he was suing her, the lawsuit says.

When he told her it was wrong to fire him, Minnelli spit on him and accused him of betraying her, the suit claims.

But once she calmed down, she started kissing him again and pleading with him to have sex with her, the suit contends.

Soumayah said he resisted the diva and split.

Minnelli’s attorney, Dorothy Weber, countered with court papers calling Soumayah’s legal action a “shakedown,” and a “quicksand of untruths and misstatements.”

The entertainer has filed a $250,000 countersuit against Soumayah, claiming breach of contract.

Minnelli and her lawyers were so fearful of Gest’s accusations that they got Soumayah to sign a confidentiality agreement on Aug. 11, 2003, after she and Gest split, the bodyguard’s lawsuit claims.

Soumayah contends he was was told he had to sign the agreement because he “knew too much.”

Minnelli pleaded with Justice Barbara Kapnick not to unseal Soumayah’s lawsuit, filed in September.

“I do not seek preferential treatment. I only ask Your Honor to please enforce my agreement and protect me from scandal, which is clearly being used to completely embarrass me,” Minnelli said in court papers.

But the judge said yesterday that the law required her to unseal the lawsuit.

Privacy, please, was diva’sfondest wish from judge

Liza Minnelli has been in the spotlight since birth, the daughter of a Hollywood icon and a highly regarded director.

She made her movie debut as a toddler and performed onstage with her mother as a teenager, before carving out her own hugely successful career as a young woman.

But in a court filing last week, the 58-year-old entertainer made a revealing and poignant plea to a Manhattan judge to grant her some degree of privacy.

“I was born into a life of media attention. I have always recognized, accepted and understand (and sometimes even appreciated) the interest of the press in my life and my career,” Minnelli wrote to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick in asking her not to unseal bodyguard M’Hammed Soumayah’s lawsuit claiming she forced him to have sex with her.

“I am not ungrateful for my celebrity status,” Minnelli wrote. “But I think I deserve, as does everyone, some right to privacy.”