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Cops: Ex-‘Runway’ model lied about mugging

A former contestant on “Project Runway” claimed that an armed homeless man robbed her after she generously gave him a few bucks inside a Murray Hill bodega.

But surveillance video reveals that the blond bombshell — who has graced the cover of Harper’s Bazaar — would be better cast as America’s Next Top Liar, and she was ticketed for filing a phony report.

“There is video that contradicts what she says,” a police source said. “There was no robbery.”

Morgan Quinn, 31, told cops that she withdrew $300 from an ATM at 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 7 and that a homeless man standing nearby saw the dough and begged for some money.

The model, known for her meltdowns on the first season of the show now airing on Lifetime, handed over a few bucks and walked out, she said.

She claimed the man followed her to the front of 224 E. 28th St., “pulled out a pointy object” and threatened her before forcing her inside the building and up to a fifth-floor stairwell. The panhandler then swiped her purse and a ring supposedly worth $2,000 before shoving her down the stairs, she claimed.

Quinn went to the 13th Precinct station house to file a report. Cops canvassed the neighborhood for the supposed perp — but came up empty. They found her purse a week later with no cash inside.

During the investigation, they also reviewed surveillance video at the location where she claimed she was robbed — but it didn’t show a robbery taking place or anything else that could corroborate her story.

A detective returned the purse to the model at her penthouse apartment on Central Park West on Aug. 23 and issued the stunned stunner a desk-appearance ticket for allegedly filing a false ­police report.

Her lawyer, Brian Kennedy, said he had not seen the video.

“If the entire video is produced, it should show her being robbed,” he said. “It’s just unfortunate that the DA’s Office is even thinking of prosecuting.”

She showed up at Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday wearing a black leather miniskirt and smiling broadly. Her misdemeanor case was adjourned.

It’s unclear why she might have fabricated the tale.