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Personal assistant pleads guilty to embezzling 821G from hedge funder Todd Meister

Renata Shamrakova

Renata Shamrakova (Steven Hirsch)

MONEY HONEY:
Renata Shamrakova (right) in court yesterday, where she pleaded guilty to fleecing Todd Meister, ex-hubby of socialite Nicky Hilton (with him, left). (
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All right, she took his money.

After a year of denials, glamorous Ukranian embezzler Renata Shamrakova admitted in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday that she stole nearly $1 million while working as the personal assistant to hedge funder Todd Meister.

Under the plea deal, she will serve no jail time but must repay what she took within two years.

“Yes, your honor,” Shamrakova told the judge, when asked if she had committed grand larceny in the second degree by stealing from Meister, 42, a Harvard-educated money man who famously married Nicky Hilton for just six weeks in 2004.

Shamrakova, 28, wore a gray cashmere sweater over a short, floral-print skirt and spoke in a quiet, girlish voice as she sat at the defense table and admitted her crimes. In addition to ripping off Meister, she tried to dodge a search warrant by hiding financial records.

Meister has insisted that he had nothing but a work relationship with Shamrakova. The pretty brunette, though, had maintained since her February 2012 embezzlement arrest that the stolen money had actually been “gifts” Meister gratefully gave her during the course of their workplace love affair.

Yesterday, Shamrakova came clean, averting a possible 15-year prison term on grand larceny by promising to repay $821,000.

And Shamrakova is off the hook financially, as well. Her parents are footing the restitution bill by selling a chunk of upstate property, her defense team has said.

Shamrakova admittedly committed identity theft by taking out two American Express cards — one platinum, one gold — in Meister’s name. She rang up $900,000 in travel to Aruba, Canada, India, Italy and France and purchased thousands of pieces of jewelry that she sold online for cash.

She’d then pay off the cards by writing checks using Meister’s JPMorgan account without his permission, she said yesterday.

Asked afterward about the plea deal, Meister said he was grateful that “justice was served.”

“I appreciate the hard work that the DA did in this case and their willingness to look at the facts,” Meister told The Post .

If Shamrakova fails to make restitution as scheduled, she will be sentenced to serve at least one year prison, the judge told her.

And if she fails to make her scheduled return court dates, is rearrested or violates an order of protection by contacting Meister, she faces six years in prison.