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FOXY IN THE PEN HOUSE

Jail has taken the moxie out of Foxy.

Down-and-pout diva Foxy Brown is holed up in a cell at Rikers Island desperate for human contact as she spends her days flipping through the Bible, guz zling orange soda and fretting about her floundering hair weaves, former in mates said yesterday.

“Everyone who passes by looks at her – she’s usually sleeping or reading her books,” said Teresa Pandolfo, 39, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, who was housed in a cellblock near the slapper-rapper.

The ex-inmates said they have been threatened by jail guards not to look or talk to the hot-tempered hip-hopper since she landed in the slammer Aug. 22 for allegedly violating parole over an assault case – but she’s tried plenty to socialize with them.

Donalay Thomas, 19, of Staten Island, said that when she and other inmates passed by Brown’s jail cell for recreation time, the star started frantically “banging on the door, saying, ‘I want to go to rec, too!’

“She’s [alone] all day, every day,” Thomas said. “They’re just keeping her away from everybody.”

When other inmates yell to her, ” ‘Hey, Foxy!’ she’ll just look up and wave,” Thomas said.

“She’s friendly, she’s not uppity,” Thomas said.

Brown is forced to take her meals and recreation time solo for security reasons, said a spokesman for the city Correction Department.

Former inmates said the three-months-pregnant rapper regularly heats up cheap Ramen noodles on a hot plate in her room and washes them down with orange soda bought from the jail commissary.

After Brown flounced out of court in her five-inch Fendi heels last week and arrived at the jail, Pandolfo said, she could be heard screaming down the hallway, “I want commissary! I want potato chips!”

But the rapper quickly lost her attitude, Pandolfo said. She’s also lost some of her looks.

“Her hair looks like whoever did it ran. That’s how much the weave is coming apart,” she said.

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is set to appear before a judge on Sept. 7, the day after her 28th birthday.

She was ordered held for allegedly swatting a neighbor with her cellphone, after admitting a year ago that she’d assaulted two Chelsea nail-salon workers with her fists and the phone.

Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy

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