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‘I’M GOING TO KILL ANNA WINTOUR’

“Fire fiend” Peter Braunstein planned to kill Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, it was revealed this morning at his Manhattan kidnap-sex-assault case.

“So I’ll tell you why I’m going to kill Anna Wintour – because I just feel like it,” Braunstein ranted in a “Personal manifesto” he wrote in the months before his Oct. 31, 2005 attack on a Fairchild Publications co-worker.

No details of Braunstein’s how-to plans were disclosed in court – except that Wintour’s death was to be up close and personal, according to the manifesto.

Just shooting her would be “too impersonal,” Braunstein wrote, according to an excerpt of the manifesto read aloud outside the jury’s presence in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The manifesto was on a computer disc in Braunstein’s backpack when he was arrested on the University of Memphis campus after six weeks on the lam from having admittedly dressed as a firefighter to trick his way into his victim’s Chelsea apartment.

There, he chloroformed the young woman, then stripped her and bound her to her bed, sexually molesting her over the course of 13 hours.

In other “fiend-ifesto” sections referred to in court today, Braunstein celebrates serial killer Son of Sam, and the Columbine school shooters, who get a special shout out for having taken revenge on enemies who, like his own, didn’t appreciate their talents.

Andrew Cunanan is admired for his 1997 Miami Beach murder of designer Gianni Vercace. Braunstein’s writings also quote rapper Notorious BIG – “You’re nobody ’til you kill a whole bunch of other people.”

Braunstein even had some fond words for fictional serial killer Hannibal Lechter, who he applauds as being an important criminal literary figure, “because of his intellect.”

So far, only bits and pieces of Braunstein’s writings have been read aloud to jurors, who will hear about the Wintour plot – but not Braunstein’s serial killer-worship – during psychiatric testimony this week.

But jurors have already heard that Wintour is on his list of enemies.”When I was a media reporter, there were many high-profile editors, and God knows they had big egos, but you could still get them on the phone,” Braunstein wrote in a section of the manifesto read to jurors by the defense last week.

“Remnick, Carter, Fuller, even Martha Stewart. But Wintour? She just never talked to peons like us,” wrote Braunstein, a former fashion media critic for Women’s Wear Daily.

“It was beneath her. And all the while I’m thinking “Who is this skank?” She plays up this aristocratic, Marie Antoinette Let them eat cake” routine, but, excuse me, can I get some proof that she holds a title of nobility that goes back to the 13th Century?

“No. All she does is edit a magazine. That’s it. So what’s with the royalty routine?… I mean, for Christ?s sake, the woman slept with Bob Marley, one of the most soulful people ever to walk the face of the earth. If that didn’t spiritualize her, nothing would.”

He continued, “Wintour will be escorted by eunuchs to a place in Hell run entirely by large rats. Even Satan can’t get in there, because he and the rats had a falling-out a couple of millennia ago.

“The rats, apparently, are unionized and Satan tried to break the union; there’s been a lot of bad blood ever since.”

Braunstein lost his WWD job after making a stink about only getting a single ticket to the Vogue Fashion Awards.

He’s on trial fighting a possible 25 years-to-life sentence for first degree kidnapping.