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JIM CLARK TO WED KRISTY HINZE

It’s good to be Jim Clark.

The techno-billionaire, who is set to marry a golden-haired swimsuit model half his age tomorrow in the British Virgin Islands, continues to lead a charmed life.

The 64-year-old Netscape co-founder will wed Kristy Hinze, 28, as part of a lavish four-day affair that will drift from Clark’s $100 million yacht, Sir Richard Branson’s private Necker Island and the island Virgin Gorda, where the ceremony will be held.

The 120 guests will adhere to a “tropical chic” dress code, and a strict no-shoes policy while on his fabled yacht The Athena which is thought to be the world’s largest in private hands, according to the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper.

It’ll be his fourth trip down the aisle, and on Monday, Clark celebrates his 65th birthday.

The self-described “child of hardscrabble Texas” is the first man in history to start three multi-billion dollar companies. When his Netscape Communications went public in 1995 it was one of the most successful IPOs in history. He’s currently worth $1.1 billion.

And now he’s marrying the blond host of Australia’s “Project Runway” – a cover girl since age 14 who has seductively posed in next to nothing for both Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret.

The May-December couple has been dating for several years, ever since Clark’s high-profile and pricey divorce from Forbes business reporter Nancy Rutter, his wife of 15 years.

Rutter got $100 million in the cash, stocks, and bonds; $24.6 million in property; a $600,000 ownership stake in a Citation V jet; plus racehorses, jewelry and furniture in the settlement.

But even before they put pen to paper on the resolution, Clark had already landed a babe who is younger than his own daughter by a decade.

Just a few days after the divorce went final, Clark could be seen cruising the world’s oceans with a beautiful blond by his side. Dubbed his “Aussie Angel,” she was outed as Hinze in 2006.

“I never thought I was going to date an older man when I first met him,” Hinze told The Australian Women’s Weekly.

“To me, it was different to hang out with someone with something to say that was so interesting and important and who was truly, incredibly intelligent. He’s handsome and has so much charisma – and he’s so funny.”

Clark famously insisted when the pair first hooked up: “I’m not getting married again. Or if I do, it will be with a pre-nup.”

Clark was born to an alcoholic, wife-beating father and a hard-working mother who made barely paid the bills working for a doctor’s office.

He dropped out of high school, joined the Navy at age 16, and went on to college where he studied math, physics, and computer science. He married twice in a short time, had two children, and was working as a professor at the New York Institute of Technology when he got fired for insubordination.

Wife number two abandoned him, and he spiraled into a deep depression. He credits the German psychoanalyst Eric Fromm with helping him realize his inner mogul.

“During that time,” Clark told the Dallas Morning News in 2000, “I went through this mental awakening, sort of self-actualization, about being in control of one’s destiny, being a leader, being positive and constructive, as opposed to complaining about what had happened.”

When Clark was hired as a professor at Stanford University, he started putting Fromm’s practice into play.

He invented a revolutionary microchip that allowed computers to create 3-D objects and famously brought the space ships in Star Wars and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park to the big screen. But he was pushed out of the company by the venture capitalists who invested in it, and had to watch, seething as it made billions without him.

That only happened once.

He soon started Netscape Communications, using the first generation internet browser Mosaic, and brought internet surfing to the world. He got rich – and he got revenge, ensuring that the investors who’d kicked him out of his earlier company didn’t get a piece of Netscape. One would shoot himself in the head on the day Clark incorporated Netscape.

The “Seer of Silicon Valley” as he’s known, would soon attract the attention of best-selling author Michael Lewis, who wrote “The New New Thing” about Clark.

He went on to start the internet health care company Healtheon – a concept he dreamed up while in the hospital – “just to prove to people that the first two companies weren’t luck.”

“For me, failure is not an option,” he said.