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A pair of married mortgage brokers, deep in arrears, were busted for running a brothel out of a house in a tony section of Westchester County, authorities said yesterday.

Friday’s arrests of Robert Werner, 34, and his 32-year-old wife, Heather Ann Mazzenga, came just two days after the couple filed for bankruptcy protection, and a day after the aborted foreclosure auction of their Pleasantville home.

The couple – who have a 6-year-old son – are scheduled to appear in New Rochelle City Court today to face charges of promoting prostitution at a house they once owned on North Avenue,

Four other women have been charged with prostitution and unlicensed practice of massage at the house, which is down the street from New Rochelle High School and Iona College.

“It’s shocking. It’s such a nice neighborhood,” said a resident, who declined to give her name. “Everybody’s buzzing . . . people noticed there were always cars along the side road [next to the house] at night.”

George Galgano, a defense lawyer who represents Werner, said, “There was no prostitution taking place . . . there was no sex offered, no sex taking place in the house.”

Galgano said the couple opened the business – whose services he declined to discuss – just last week at the house, which land records show Werner sold to an associate in 2005 for $590,000.

Two messages posted last Friday on the Web site Craigslist.com advertised the house’s services.

One entitled “Grand Opening Special! Hot models, soft sensual touch,” said, “New Rochelle has Westchester’s first and only member’s only club for men and women . . . We offer role play, fetishes, light body rubs, body rejuvenation and dominatrix.”

New Rochelle Police Capt. Joseph Schaller said detectives “doing routine monitoring of the Internet” saw the ads last Friday and figured out that “possible prostitution activities” were going on at the house.

Cops conducted “an undercover operation at the home on Friday evening . . . confirmed the prostitution,” and busted Werner, Mazzenga and the other four women, Schaller said. All of them posted bail that night.

Werner has racked up more than $75,000 in debt judgments and federal tax liens since 2000, according to public records.

On their Chapter 13 federal bankruptcy filing last Wednesday – which stayed foreclosure on their $650,000 Pleasantville home – Werner and Mazzenga claim they jointly have earned nearly $400,000 in income from their real estate and mortgage business since 2005.

dan.mangan@nypost.com