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For rent: 2BR, 2BTH, 1 butler

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Celebrities renting an apartment in a converted Chelsea mansion will get a unique amenity — Graydon Carter’s butler.

Ivo Juhani, 33, is a modern-day Jeeves who serves as the Vanity Fair editor’s part-time manservant and as head waiter at his West Village celebrity mecca, the Waverly Inn.

Now he will also wait on the five tenants at 436 W. 20th St., including Courtney Love and Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

His daily duties: delivering mail, lighting fireplaces, stocking fresh flowers and booking private cars. He will also stock fridges, book reservations at the city’s most exclusive clubs and don a tux to work private cocktail parties.

“I have also suggested English tea hour,” said Juhani. “It would be a lovely touch to have 5 p.m. tea in the house.”

The mansion, a Greek-revival town house, was built in 1835 and bought for $6.1 million in 2008 by developer Michael Bolla. The property was gutted and turned into five luxury apartments, which rent for between $15,000 and $20,000 a month.

It was the luxury of butler service that proved a big draw for tenants.

“Everyone wanted to know if there was someone there, overseeing the house,” said Bolla, who met Juhani while dining at the Waverly.

Juhani, who moved to the city from Estonia 10 years ago, will be stationed in the hallway daily between noon and 4 p.m., dressed in a custom-tailored suit made by designer Thom Browne — a hip interpretation of the traditional penguin tux.

He won’t, however, wear white gloves.

“Gloves are a little much for the modern day and age,” Juhani said. “We want to keep it nice and simple.”

Juhani was working at a private club in Manhattan when he was poached to work at theWaverly, where he met Carter.

“I now work in Graydon’s house,” said Juhani, a bachelor who lives in a studio apartment in Brooklyn. “I was handpicked to be on the opening team at the Waverly, and we clicked.”

Juhani’s transition from the Waverly, where he’ll still work, to the Chelsea mansion was natural.

“Many of our tenants are already regulars at the Waverly,” he said. “I’ve met many of them before, so there’s a connection already.”