Metro

‘Flame’up at FDNY tran trial

TAYLOR MURPHY

TAYLOR MURPHY (Steven Hirsch)

Somebody turn a hose on this five-alarm trial.

The drama repeatedly flared up yesterday in a glamorous pre-op transsexual’s fiery courtroom battle with her fireman ex-lover — including an outburst from a mystery woman who declared her love for the defendant.

“I love you, Taylor!” the dark-haired young woman screamed, bringing the Manhattan Supreme Court trial to a brief halt.

“Groupie,” the defendant — hunky hose-handler Taylor Murphy — explained to The Post afterward, waving his hand dismissively and declining to name the woman, whom he admitted he knew.

The “groupie” held torn-out news clippings about the bizarre case in the air as she shouted. She also waved an unofficial 2011 FDNY calendar in which Murphy posed as “Mr. March,” and then turned on her heel and left the building, muttering, “I can’t help it — I get emotional.”

Murphy’s alleged assault victim — whom he is accused of beating, biting and choking in a lovers’ quarrel in a Midtown hotel room last year — broke into sobs at the disruption, and the judge asked jurors to file out of the courtroom.

It was the first of many outbursts and oddities during daylong testimony by the alleged victim, Claudia Charriez. The stunning, gender-bending model started life as a Spanish Catholic boy from Queens, ran away from home at age 14 to start “escorting,” and was kicked off of “America’s Next Top Model” in 2006 for still having male equipment.

Or at least some of that equipment.

“I don’t need to take hormone therapy,” Charriez snapped when defense lawyer Jason Berland asked her about any estrogen supplements she may have been taking at the time of the alleged August 2011 assault on their bed at the Hotel Metro.

She paused dramatically on the witness stand before explaining: “Because at a very young age, I was castrated!”

The lawyer sighed and said, “OK, let’s move on.”

In other highlights, Charriez claimed she had no idea how her nude photographs wound up on an escort service Web site advertising her as available — all 34D-22-34 inches of her — for anyone with $400 and an hour to spare.

“I do not have sex for money!” she insisted, sticking to her story of having given up escorting as of last year.

Charriez later burst into dramatic, honking, masculine sobs when the defense lawyer mentioned another of her ex-boyfriends, this one deceased. And she burst into tears again in describing the effect that the trial publicity has had on her family in Queens. “My family looks at me like a freak show because of this,” she cried.

Her cross-examination is scheduled to continue Monday.