NY- A bloodied and battered housekeeper said yesterday she ran for her life after supermodel Naomi Campbell blew up over a missing pair of jeans - and then beaned her with a cellphone that tore a 3-inch gash in back of her head.
"I couldn't believe the pain - I had so much pain back there," a pale, shaken Ana Scolavino told The Post from a gurney at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she needed five stitches to close the wound.
Her eyes red and swollen and her face taut with pain, Scolavino, 42, grimaced and spoke haltingly of the supermodel's alleged tirade - and the stunning violence it triggered.
"You're going to have to pay for those" jeans, Scolavino quoted one of the world's best-known faces as screaming. Then, she charged, Campbell used her Nokia cellphone to bash her.
Scolavino turned heel and fled the model's $3.4 million Park Avenue apartment.
She emerged with a blood-soaked napkin held to her head and went straight to the hospital.
Late last night, Campbell said she was the only one getting clobbered - and hinted Scolavino was capitalizing on the diva's previous bad behavior.
"From the time she began working for me about 21/2 months ago, I began questioning her about items I found missing," Campbell said in a statement. "This morning, when I finally fired her for that and her erratic behavior, she screamed, 'This is going to cost you a lot of money.'
"She is sadly mistaken if she thinks she can extract money from me by concocting lies by recycling old stories. I have asked my lawyer to look into filing both theft and extortion charges against her."
She said she had "no idea" how Scolavino was wounded.
Earlier, Scolavino scoffed at the idea she would have stolen clothes from the super-skinny supermodel.
"Do I look like I'd fit in her jeans?" the plump, short woman derisively asked.
Asked if she would go back to working for Campbell, Scolavino barked, "What do you think?"
The alleged assault is at least the second time Campbell, 35, has been accused of attacking an employee with a phone, and the fifth time she has been accused of violence.
"She's another Russell Crowe," said a law-enforcement source, referring to the New Zealand-born actor arrested for chucking a phone at a Manhattan hotel worker last summer. "Just a spoiled Hollywood superstar who thinks she's better than anyone else."
Scolavino said she learned too late of Campbell's nasty temper - getting only an inkling of what was in store from a doorman at the building.
He cryptically warned, "Be very careful," Scolavino claimed.
"Why did nobody tell me another [worker] was hit before?" Scolavino lamented. "You never know with people."
Scolavino was released from the hospital after getting stitched up and having an MRI.
Campbell, who has a history of drug addiction, was arrested at her 12th-floor pad at 500 Park Ave. at around noon, several hours after the 8:30 a.m. attack.
Accompanied by a high-profile lawyer she already had summoned, Campbell smiled demurely and refused to answer reporters questions as detectives escorted her out of the building, dressed in jeans, high-heeled boots and a white poncho covering her handcuffed wrists.
The British citizen was released without bail last night after arraignment on a felony second-degree assault charge in Manhattan Criminal Court. A judge allowed her to keep her passport so she could travel to South Africa today to be the guest of honor of human-rights hero Nelson Mandela at a charity function.
Emerging from the lanky model's swanky pad, her lawyer, David Breitbart, growled, "It's frustrating to be wrongfully accused. She had nothing at all to do with hurting anyone. We'll see if there is any truth to this."
Campbell faces up to seven years in prison and possible deportation from the United States to her native Britain if convicted.
She had nothing but praise for the NYPD. "I was treated very well," she said.
Shortly before the incident, a crew from Oprah Winfrey's production company had set up in Campbell's apartment, where they were planning to tape the model for an upcoming broadcast.
A production spokeswoman said that crew members were out of the apartment when the alleged attack occurred and that Winfrey was not scheduled to go to the residence.
Campbell announced earlier this month that she was going to write her memoirs with Winfrey's help.
Campbell hired Scolavino, a native of Chile married to an American, to be one of four maids - two for each floor of her duplex apartment. Scolavino said she sometimes worked up to 14 hours a day - and got no overtime pay.
Yesterday morning, Scolavino said, she was working on the upper floor while Campbell was getting dressed. The model wanted to wear a certain pair of jeans - which were kept downstairs - and could not find them.
Campbell confronted Scolavino and became enraged when told the maid had no idea where the jeans were because they were not kept in her work area, Scolavino said.
A screaming outburst followed, and Campbell smashed the maid in the back of the head with her cellphone, Scolavino claimed.
"It must have been a pretty good shot," said a police investigator familiar with the case. "She [Campbell] has apparently got some issues."
Scolavino went running to the lobby, where a worker recalled, "She started crying. She showed me her head - the back was opened up, and the wound was 3 inches long. Her hand and [a] napkin were soaked in blood."
As that worker and others tried to find out what had happened, several of Campbell's assistants pulled the maid away to a waiting car.
The building worker alleged Campbell is a hellion with staff.
"Naomi abuses all the housekeepers. They don't last because she abuses them . . . screaming at them, trying to hit them," the worker said.
Past incidents of violence involving Campbell include:
* July 31, 20005 - She was accused of attacking and bloodying a friend, Italian actress Yvonne Scio, during an argument in Rome over clothes they were wearing.
* Nov. 9, 2004 - She allegedly attacked gofer Amie Castaldo by head-butting her, biting her on the lip and pulling her hair in the model's Park Avenue apartment.
* Sept. 15, 2001 - The supermodel allegedly put a beating on personal assistant Simone Craig, who accused Campbell of holding her hostage, hitting her in the arm and face, and throwing a phone at her in a Beverly Hills hotel.
* September 1998 - Campbell's secretary Georgina Galinas accused her of hitting her with a telephone and threatening to toss her out of a car while they were on a Toronto highway.
