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CHIMP-PIX LEGAL FIGHT

Attorneys for a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee asked a judge in Stamford yesterday to seal photos of the victim and her medical records from the public.

Matt Newman, a lawyer for Charla Nash’s conservator, says her right to privacy overrides the public’s right to see her injuries.

“They’re extremely graphic,” Newman said of the photos, which, like the records, will be evidence in Nash’s $50 million suit against chimp owner Sandra Herold.

Nash, who lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the Feb. 16 attack, will be blind for life, and faces two years of surgeries.