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O.J. ‘LOVE FURY’ IS DEJA JUICE

MIAMI – O.J. Simpson’s violent jealous streak didn’t die with his ex-wife, Nicole Brown.

In an eerily similar sequel to the murder of Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, the disgraced grid great descended into a twisted rage six weeks ago when he accused his girlfriend of sleeping with a hunky, ex-con handyman, the worker and his wife told The Post.

A jealous Juice first left an irate voice mail for Janos Gonzalez, whom Simpson had hired to work at his South Miami home, on July 29. Thirty minutes later, he showed up at Gonzalez’s home in Kendall, according to Gonzalez, 42, and his wife, Marlene, 32.

With his gal pal, Nicole look-alike Christie Prody, next to him, Simpson peeled his Lexus sedan into the driveway in the late evening as Marlene Gonzalez was parking her brawny hubby’s pickup truck.

Simpson made a beeline for her, shouting, “I need to f- – -ing talk to you,” Marlene Gonzalez said.

He told her that her husband had sex with Prody earlier that day, she said.

“I told him he had to solve that problem with his girlfriend,” she said.

Janos Gonzalez, who had been inside, emerged and told Simpson to leave.

But Simpson told the lantern-jawed lothario: “Come over here. I’m going to f- – -ing kill you,” Marlene Gonzalez said.

Simpson then placed his hand behind him as if drawing a gun, she said.

“I didn’t know if he really had one,” she said.

As Simpson and the couple faced off, Prody, 31, sat in the Lexus, profusely apologizing.

“All she was telling me was that she was sorry for the scene [Simpson] was making in front of me and my family,” Marlene said.

The standoff lasted less than 15 minutes, ending when the wife dialed police. The Juice then drove off.

According to the police report obtained by The Post, the Gonzalezes described the incident as a verbal dispute in which no weapon was used. Miami cops did not pursue the case.

But in an interview Friday, Marlene said Simpson “was very violent.”

“He threatened my husband as if he were going to kill him,” she said.

She let The Post listen to a recording of a phone message she said Simpson left 30 minutes before he showed up at her home.

“He’s been screwing in your bed when you went to work,” a voice sounding like Simpson’s says. “I’m coming back out there to talk to you about it. And I’m bringing [Prody], too.”

Calls left for Simpson’s lawyer and Prody were not returned.

Janos Gonzalez, who has a long rap sheet of drug- related arrests, said he did landscaping and repairs at Simpson’s $1 million home for a year until four months ago.

He denied he ever met Prody, Simpson’s on-again, off-again girlfriend of 10 years, but said he had heard about Simpson’s volatile relationship with her.

But police reports and court documents obtained by The Post show Prody and Gonzalez did have a past, and it was not pretty.

Cops busted the pair inside Gonzalez’s truck on Aug. 22, 2006, for having drugs.

Police charged Gonzalez with felony possession of 2 grams of cocaine. Prody was hit with a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. He was convicted and sentenced to two days time served.

Prody was ordered to complete a pretrial drug course. When she failed to do that, according to court records, Prody was arrested on a bench warrant in late March 2007 and fined $318.

In 1990, Gonzalez was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison on a drug-trafficking conviction. On Aug. 28 of this year, he was again busted in his pickup for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Prody – who has listed hairdresser and cocktail waitress among her past professions – reportedly met O.J. in 1997 after she drove past his house in California and waved to him. Their relationship has been on a roller coaster ever since, with police responding to three domestic disputes between 2000 and 2005.

Simpson, who is facing charges of robbery and kidnapping in the alleged Sept. 13 stickup of sports-memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room, was acquitted of the 1994 murders of Brown and Goldman.

Simpson was found liable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million.

Prody’s mother, Cathy Bellmore, declined to comment on Simpson’s alleged showdown with Gonzalez but did say her daughter’s relationship with the Juice has been rocky.

“It’s been very hard,” Bellmore said. “But it’s one of the situations we’ve been dealt. My mission is just to make sure my daughter is OK.”

Additional reporting by Lynn Waddell

jfanelli@nypost.com