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NY ‘spy’ life was double-o heaven

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She came from Russia, with love.

The sexy suspected spy who the feds say was sent to New York to gather intel on the United States adored the American way of life and took full advantage of it — for business and pleasure.

“Anna Chapman” sidled up to power players while hobnobbing at society functions, charity events and book openings in slinky designer outfits. It was her apparent way of collecting information to send back to her native Russia — but she also enjoyed going out clubbing, blogging and seeing the sights.

During her two years in the Big Apple, she frequented New York hotspots like the Thompson Hotel, Greenhouse and Juliet — and even spent some time visiting the Statue of Liberty.

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“America is a free country. Over here, it is easy to meet successful people. In Moscow, it is practically impossible because you have to be as successful as they are . . . here you can meet successful people on the street and go have dinner with them,” she said in a video interview posted on her Facebook page, where she lists 180 friends.

In the United States, the 28-year-old said, “Anything can happen. If you have something to say and present it to the community, they will listen to you. It all happens pretty easily.”

While her English is fractured in some of her blog postings — in one on finances, she wrote “Lets looking into some basics” — Chapman’s American seemed fluent. “My new Mac has been the buy of the year . . . Love it!” she wrote in one Facebook posting.

And the modern-day Mata Hari made no efforts to conceal her Russian roots.

In the video, Chapman, who claimed she was running her own multimillion-dollar business, said, “All the money I received came from Moscow — from my family, my friends and my work overseas. I received all of my experience and money from Moscow.”

In many ways, the leggy redhead the feds called “a practiced deceiver” is still an international woman of mystery.

While prosecutors have said she was the only one of the 11 deep-cover secret agents arrested on Monday to use her own name, Russian media reported that she is actually Anya Kuschenko.

They said the vivacious vixen grew up in Volgograd — the former Stalingrad — until the eighth grade, when her father was posted to the Russian embassy in Kenya. She moved to Moscow after high school, and later got a master’s degree in economics there.

That’s when things get murky. Chapman went to work in Moscow for a company called Fortis.

Chapman briefly went to work for billionaire Warren Buffett’s NetJets Europe as an executive assistant in the sales department in May 2004, but had already moved on by that July.

Still, she boasted in her video that she’d been working in the investment industry in London, and “was working with Warren Buffett on a very interesting project.” Reps for Buffett didn’t return calls.

In 2006, she started a company called Domdot.ru, a Russian-language real-estate search engine she says brings in $2 million a year. The company sells leads to those looking for property. She appears to have arrived in New York last year — and the alleged spy was about as subtle a secret agent as James Bond.

She got an apartment in the Financial District overlooking the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, and was known for wearing designer clothes and always looking chic. In one Facebook photo, Chapman poses in a curve-hugging red cocktail dress; in another, she sports an animal-print mini.

Some friends said they thought she was the wildly rich daughter of a Russian oligarch — or perhaps a hooker.

Those who knew Chapman from the social and club scenes described her as “sweet,” “flirtatious” and “friendly” — sometimes too friendly.

At parties, she “would be very flirtatious,” said one moneyman, who encountered her at a couple of Wall Street cocktail soirees. “She was very sexually aggressive [and] wore revealing clothing . . . I thought she was a call girl because she dressed that way,” said the man, who spoke to The Post on condition of anonymity.

She also had problems keeping her cover stories straight.

“She made up a different story every time,” he said.

“The first time, she said she ran a real-estate Web site. Then the next time, she was working on an oil deal.”

“[Then] she told me she was a derivatives trader. I asked her one thing any derivatives trader would know and she didn’t know what I was talking about,” he said. “She was just dumb, quite frankly.”

Chapman did keep her eyes on the prize, however. “She always asked what people did for a living or who they were. If she found out they were remotely famous or had a title, she would glom onto them,” the man said.

Chapman also used charity events to cozy up to business bigs. Last month, she went to an FDNY Foundation party honoring Louis Chenevert, the head of United Technologies. The company manufactures fighter jet engines for the US military.

The feds had been watching her since at least January, and said that despite her busy schedule, she made time to communicate via her laptop with a Russian agent every Wednesday from “various locations in New York City.”

Those locations, which were monitored by the FBI, included a Starbucks at West 47th Street and Eighth Avenue and the Barnes & Noble at Warren and Greenwich streets.

Additional reporting by Philip Messing and Rebecca Rosenberg

jeane.macintosh@nypost.com