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Meet Warhol’s babes: the women who partied with him — and lived to tell about it

Pop artist Andy Warhol predicted that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. But many of the artists, actors and musicians who hung out with the legendary New Yorker at his studio the Factory or decadent club Studio 54 have made their 15 minutes last a lot longer — decades, even.

As the Brooklyn Museum of Art pays tribute to Warhol with the retrospective “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade,” running now until Sept. 12, we asked four of his muses to look back on their own time with the artist. Although Warhol died at 58 in 1987, these women are still kicking — and looking better than ever.

MARY WORONOV

66, actress, writer, painter
* Years at the Factory: 1964 to 1966
* Claim to 15 minutes of fame: She was in eight of Warhol’s films, including “Chelsea Girls,” and often had roles as the masculine counterpart to drag queens.
* How they met: “I did the screen test, and Warhol liked me. My fierce demeanor and gender flipping fascinated Warhol. I was very strong, young, gorgeous and acted like Nero. I was also so full of amphetamines.”
* Where’s Mary now? The former Brooklynite now lives in LA and is starring in a documentary about herself based on her book, “Confessions of a Cult Queen.” “The people who stayed there [at the Factory] had a hard life. That was just two years of my life.”
* On Andy: “He set up a very freeing energy. He let me do what I want. He never said ‘Do this.’ He would say, ‘I don’t know.’ ”

BRIGID BERLIN

70, artist
* Years at the Factory: 1964 to 1968 at the original studio, and two other incarnations until 1987
* Claim to 15 minutes of fame: The “B” in Warhol’s book “From A to B and Back Again,” Berlin was Warhol’s professional and personal partner in crime and remained his closest friend until he died.
* How they met: Through Met curator Henry Geldzahler. “I arrived [at the Factory] and never left. We were Archie and Edith Bunker together,” she says. “I was with him every single day and talked to him four or five times a day.”
* Where’s Brigid now? She’s in Murray Hill, cataloging and digitizing tapes of their phone calls for a book and creating another book from Polaroids she shot while working at the Factory. She recently had a show of her needlepoint pieces — featuring covers of The Post.
* On Andy: “Every time Andy gave me money to get something for him, he’d tell me: ‘Oh Brig, don’t forget to get the receipts,’ ” says Berlin, noting the receipts were for his taxes. “He’d want a receipt for a bottle of Irish whiskey and whipped cream!”

BIBBE HANSEN

58, actress, musician, writer, — and mother of rocker Beck.
* Year at the Factory: 1965
* Claim to 15 minutes of fame: At 13, Hansen, was the youngest person to score superstar status among Warhol’s coterie. Her debut was in Warhol’s film “Prison.”
* How they met: Just released from juvenile prison, the teen met her father (artist Al Hansen) and they went to bohemian hangout Stark’s coffee shop. Warhol was there. “Andy bought us hamburgers, peered over the table at me and said: ‘And what do you do?’ My dad proudly said: ‘I just sprung her from jail.’ Andy’s face lit up. He was like, ‘Oh, please, we have to make a movie about that.’ I said ‘Sure.’ ”
* Where’s Bibbe now? She’s on the Upper East Side, acting and working on her memoir.
* On Andy: “He was very welcoming. People talk about him as cynical, but he invited a 13-year-old, a jailbird, to collaborate with him.”

CORNELIA GUEST

46, actress, socialite, philanthropist, brand manager at Donna Karan
* Years at the Factory: On summer breaks when home from boarding school in the early ’80s
* How they met: “When I was 6, he came for dinner because he was friends with my parents [polo champion Winston and C.Z. Guest, a one-time Post gardening columnist]. He ended up on the floor coloring with me. [Later] our friendship was going to nightclubs, parties and horse shows.”
* Where’s Cornelia now? On the Upper East Side and in Old Westbury, LI, working on a vegan cookie line, a book and a reality TV show.
* On Andy: “I was very inspired by his great work ethic. We would go walking around the city handing out Interview magazines.”