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Doc squeezes bosom buddy

A Norwegian-born Playboy model scored more than $550,000 from her plastic surgeon after he allegedly used photos of her on his Web site without permission — but now the doc is trying to take a scalpel to the judgment.

And renowned breast, bod and face enhancer Dr. Leonard Hochstein says he has an eyebrow-raising piece of evidence to bolster his case against buxom, blond beauty Monica Hansen.

It’s a 2008 e-mail that Hansen, a former Miss Norway, purportedly sent notorious Hollywood madam Michelle Braun in which she admits that the doctor had permission to use the photos.

“I think [Hansen] just wanted a way to get money out of me,” Hochstein, 43, said from Miami, where he’s known as “The Boob God.”

Next week, a California judge will hear arguments by Hochstein’s lawyer to set aside the default $564,555 judgment that the 6-foot-1 Hansen won against him in July.

Hochstein said he has known Hansen — Maxim magazine’s 2006 “Woman of the Year” — for more than a decade and briefly dated her.

In about 2006 or 2007, Hochstein said, he posted photos of Hansen on his practice’s Web site to advertise his services.

Hochstein said he “absolutely” had a quid pro quo arrangement with Hansen in which she got discounted surgeries in exchange for allowing her images to be used.

Hochstein pointed to a November 2007 MySpace message to him from Hansen in which she apparently wrote: “Hope ur well hun . . . I just got an email from Keith the photographer that took the images on your website of me. He was going crazy about having my images on your website. He ownes the right to the images, and ask me to tell you to takem down of our site ASAP. Sorry!! Could you pls take them down, and let me know hun.”

Hochstein — who has been on the Bravo docudrama “Miami Slice” — said he promptly removed those specific images. But others of Hansen that had not been taken by that photographer stayed.

Then, a year later, Hansen suddenly sued Hochstein, claiming he never had permission to post any image of her.

The doctor said his camp is coming armed to the next hearing with Hansen’s alleged correspondence with Michelle Braun, a madam whose Miami and Los Angeles escort agencies earned $8.5 million by hooking up Hollywood bigwigs and large spenders with models and porn stars and other women.

In a Nov. 17, 2008, e-mail titled “Re: Photo Shoot,” a copy of which Hochstein provided to The Post, Hansen wrote Braun, “Hi, yes honey I did let Lenny use the pictures. I am so sorry for the troubles. Just became an issue with my agency is all but I am not going to sue. How is everything with you? Will you be in LA soon?”

Hochstein, who is friendly with Braun, is submitting that e-mail to a judge as part of his effort to get the default judgment overturned.

Hansen, when contacted by The Post, said, “I can’t make any comment,” and referred all questions to her lawyer, who did not respond to a message requesting comment.

dan.mangan@nypost.com