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Umbrella self-defense case going to trial

It’s self-defense with a dangerous bodega umbrella.

A celebrity jeweler — accused of thwacking a stranger with her $2 umbrella during a fight over a Christopher Street parking spot this summer — is promising she’ll go to trial to insist she only swung to protect herself.

Pretty Dawnelle Yager — whose jewelry has been worn by Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Hudgens — has no choice but take the ‘brolly brawl to a jury, her lawyer said yesterday after a brief appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court.

Prosecutors declined to make any reduction in the misdemeanor assault and weapons charges against Yager, 42, who they say struck victim spa worker Meng Dong, 30, so hard, he suffered cuts and bruises on his arms.

The only disposition they’d agree to yesterday was for her to admit to everything — even though that would result in a criminal record for weapons possession for the umbrella, said the lawyer, Edward Kratt.

“They want her to plead to weapons and assault charges — and do a long anger management program — and that won’t be happening,” the lawyer said.

Dong has insisted that Yager came at him with no provocation, all the while screaming, “That’s my spot!”

But Dong got what he deserved, Yager told cops when she was busted. “He asked me if I owned Christopher Street and thought it was mine,” according to her police statements.

“I swung my umbrella at him to protect myself,” she explained.

As for the umbrella, it was taken by cops at the scene, and Yager won’t see it again until prosecutors produce it as evidence at a yet-determined trial date.

She’s back in court for pretrial hearings Nov. 13.