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‘KID-PORN’ DAD VS. ‘PILL-POP’ MA

A multimillionaire who until recently headed one of the world’s top luxury travel agencies is accused of collecting kiddie porn and raping his wife in what could be Connecticut’s most bitter and expensive divorce case ever, The Post has learned.

In turn, Peter Tauck denies those claims and is calling his wife, Nancy, a drunk, a pill-head and an overall nut case.

At stake are $55 million in assets, among them a sprawling Westport mansion and a Lake Placid house – as well as custody of their four young children.

“This case has been called the most complicated divorce case in the state of Connecticut,” said Nancy’s lawyer, Wayne Effron.

The Taucks’ legal bills were approaching $5 million even before the divorce went to trial two weeks ago in Middletown state court, where more than 100 witnesses are expected to testify over 90 days.

The couple had been married for nine years when Nancy sued to divorce Peter, 49, whose grandfather founded Norwalk travel agency, now called Tauck World Discovery. The company annually generates more than $300 million in revenue.

Since the suit was filed in 2005, the FBI has been given the contents of Peter’s laptop computer, which allegedly contains at least a dozen images of child pornography. Federal authorities so far have not filed criminal charges over that purported porn, which Peter’s attorneys imply Nancy, 46, could have planted.

Peter’s lawyers argue Nancy cooked up false allegations, including a claim that he raped her, to distract from her unfitness to raise her kids.

Nancy is a “markedly disturbed woman with paranoid features and poor temper control” who has used a boxcutter to slice her arms, said Tom Colin, Peter’s lawyer.

In July 2005, Nancy disappeared with the kids and spent weeks with them traveling around the Eastern seaboard. During that jaunt, “She was hospitalized with what we now know was a drug overdose,” the lawyer said.

Peter’s legal team filed papers saying Nancy “has a three-year history of drug and alcohol abuse.”

Nancy’s lawyer Effron admitted she is a “recovering alcoholic,” but said her slip-ups pale in comparison to Peter’s tawdry history, which he says includes cocaine and sexual addictions, and a suicide attempt.

dan.mangan@nypost.com