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KIDNAPPED BY A ROCKEFOOLER

A New York man who masqueraded as a Rockefeller and infiltrated high society allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter from his ex-wife – and may be trying to smuggle her to Bermuda or Peru on his boat, officials said yesterday.

PHOTO GALLERY: Kidnapped Daughter

The dad, currently known as Clark Rockefeller – but who has operated under at least three aliases – was last spotted with little Reigh “Snooks” Boss at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday near Grand Central Terminal, authorities said.

Rockefeller had allegedly swiped the youngster earlier in the day during a supervised visit in one of Boston’s richest neighborhoods – where he had recently lived a life of deceit centered around his fabulously phony tales of being a direct descendent of the Rockefellers.

The deceptive dad was apparently making his way yesterday to Long Island, where his recently bought 72-foot catamaran, Serenity, is docked. He may want use it to spirit the child to Bermuda.

New York and Long Island harbor units, the Coast Guard and FBI were looking for the boat in waters around New York and Long Island.

Boston police said today they had no new information on the whereabouts of Rockefeller or Reigh, but they did find the vehicle he fled in on Sunday, and were questioning the operator, said Elaine Driscoll, a police spokeswoman.

Boston police issued an arrest warrant for Rockefeller on charges of custodial kidnapping. He also was charged with assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon because the social worker was injured while trying to hold onto the vehicle.

Rockefeller – who has also used the names Clark Mills and James Frederick – allegedly abducted Reigh in front of a townhouse near the Four Seasons Hotel in posh Beacon Hill.

The child and her mom, Sandra Boss, a partner in the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm with ties to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were in town from London and had arranged the visit.

Rockefeller had a different plan.

While Boss was walking with Reigh and a social-services supervisor, an SUV swerved up to them, according to the Boston Herald. Rockefeller shoved the worker aside, snatched the little girl, and darted off in the black vehicle, which had a Red Sox sticker on the back and license plates bearing the team’s logo, the Herald said.

The social-services supervisor was still hanging on to the door handle as the SUV sped off.

Rockefeller is now facing charges that include custodial kidnapping and assault.

When the father and daughter arrived in Manhattan, a friend called the cops and said he was unwittingly involved in a crime, law-enforcement sources said.

The brazen kidnapping stunned Boss and her relatives, who have long been suspicious of the diminutive Rockefeller and his origins.

There are few records bearing the name Clark Rockefeller or J. Clark Rockefeller, a signature he used on a document last year to allow Reigh’s last name to be changed to Boss.

Any property Rockefeller and Boss had was in her name, from their New York real estate to a $2.3 million Boston brownstone, the Herald said.

And records show that Rockefeller was issued a Social Security number no more that three years ago in Connecticut – where there’s no trace of him having lived.

“The big unanswered question was always, ‘Who the hell was he?’ ” said a source close to the family.

Boss’ relatives had their doubts about Rockefeller’s ties to William Rockefeller and his laundry list of illustrious heirs from the time the two were married in around 1995.

There were his suspect stories about studying at Yale, and strange claims that he was tight with some of the famed Hearst clan. He would even cite that friendship as a reason why he hadn’t used the Rockefeller surname for most of his life.

“He [said he] was terrified of being abducted,” the source said, referring to the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.

Boss had all the makings of the perfect Rockefeller bride. She followed undergraduate work at Stanford with a master’s degree in business from Harvard.

Her quick rise up the corporate ladder led her to relocate to London for McKinsey.

Throughout her marriage, relatives couldn’t completely disprove her husband’s lineage, although they never tried that hard.

A call to the Rockefeller Center Archives in Tarrytown would have cleared up the matter.

“There is no Clark Rockefeller related to William,” said Frasier Seitel, a center spokesman, referring to both William Sr. and his son by the same name, whose brother was oil baron John D. Rockefeller.

An archivist there repeated the denial, insisting that John D. Rockefeller’s family tree contains no Clark Rockefeller, either.

Still, there were traces of Rockefelleresque riches along the way. At the time he hooked up with Boss, Rockefeller had an apartment full of 20th century masterpieces, including works by Jackson Pollack and Piet Mondrian, according to relatives.

It suggested a connection to great wealth, they said, though by no means a definitive tie to his fantasy family.

The family source said that what was creepy was that “he really looked like a Rockefeller. Maybe he was illegitimate in some way.”

It is unclear if Rockefeller, who supposedly has a degree in science – he claimed in 2004 to the Valley News of New Hampshire that he was a mathematician and physicist – used the name to earn a coveted director position at Boston’s exclusive Algonquin Club.

Rockefeller, who is 5-foot-6, 170 pounds and, the family source said, speaks with a strange accent, is a stocky with thinning blond hair. He was last seen wearing a blue Lacoste shirt and khaki pants.

Boston police believe he is 48, but the FBI said he is 58.

“The NYPD is working with the FBI and Boston police to determine his or their movements in New York and help locate the child,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

tom.liddy@nypost.com