This lamé-wearing Bee Gee nearly boogied right into jail.
The late Robin Gibb — a member of the classic ’70s group of “Saturday Night Fever” fame — came under FBI scrutiny in the early ’80s for allegedly threatening and trying to blackmail the lawyers repping his then-wife, The Post has learned.
The Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famer’s records — buried deep in FBI files in New York and Miami — were released to The Post through a Freedom of Information request once Gibb died in May at age 62 after a well-publicized battle with colon cancer.
The London law firm Haymon & Walters first reported Gibb to the feds after it “received numerous threatening telegrams from Gibb which threatened their lives,” according to an FBI report dated March 23, 1981.
“What you have done is just about the limit,” Gibb seethed to the lawyers in one telegram turned over to the FBI. “I warned and warned you. The situation is now very serious. Know [sic] one walks all over me … I have had enough. “I have taken out a contract on [name deleted by the FBI]. It is now a question of time.”
At the time, FBI agents contacted Western Union, the telegram company Gibb allegedly used to dispatch his threats, and discussed issuing subpoenas to obtain additional information.
The feds also strategized how best to probe the accusations without tipping off Gibb or contacting him directly, the records show.
Agents tried to speak to Gibb while he was in the Big Apple for a gig in December 1980, but the musician directed them to his lawyer.
The next day, Gibb’s lawyer eventually told the feds that Gibb “would not be foolish enough to carry out any threat, especially in view of his singing career.” The lawyer also accused Gibb’s then-wife of “attempting to use the FBI to embarrass Gibb” as a negotiating tactic in their divorce.
Ultimately, Gibb’s divorce from Molly Hullis was finalized. He remarried in 1985.
Gibb later copped to neglecting his marriage to Hullis and said he destroyed it through his drug use.
Although his older brother, Barry, was far more famous thanks to his falsetto lead vocals on the Gibb brothers’ ’70s disco hits, Robin sang a number of rock tunes for the group before they landed in the polyester era.
On March 23, 1981, the FBI decided to close out its investigation into Robin Gibb because Hullis and her lawyers did not want to press charges.
Contacted by The Post last week, the office of Barry Gibb — the only surviving Gibb brother — said the family had no comment.
An FBI spokesman added that he could say nothing beyond what was contained in Gibb’s file.