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Seinfeld’s ex-girlfriend says bandits made her feel ‘beyond violated’

The fashion designer ex-girlfriend of Jerry Seinfeld said Wednesday it was “beyond violation” that her apartment was looted of $1.5 million in jewels — along with passports and Social Security cards.

Gruss on July 20th.James Messerschmidt

Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, 41, told cops the robbery happened between June 25 and July 19, while she was in Montauk, LI, with her three kids.

Before leaving for the East End, cops say Gruss failed to activate the alarm at her tony three-story home at 118 E. 61st St.

“I lost everything I ever owned,” Gruss told The Post outside the crime scene.
“I’m heartbroken . . . It’s beyond violation.”

Gruss — who began a four-year relationship with comedian Seinfeld in 1993, when she was 17 and he was 38 — arrived back from vacation to discover a closet open, shelves toppled and her safe broken into.

According to sources, about 300 pieces of jewels worth $1.5 million were swiped along with four passports and three Social Security cards.

The invasion comes amid other struggles for Gruss, who divorced music-exec husband Joshua Gruss in 2014.

Gruss’s home on East 61st St.James Messerschmidt

According to public records, her fashion line, Shoshanna, is doing poorly, with less than $28,000 in annual revenues. She launched the line in 1998, a year after her May-December relationship with Seinfeld ended.

And despite being named style director of Elizabeth Arden in 2013, the cosmetic company has failed to actively use her in many marketing campaigns.

Gruss said the theft of her personal jewels was a hard hit — but it wasn’t the dollar amount that bothered her.

It was “lots of sentimental stuff that can’t be replaced,” she said.

Photos she posted to Instagram during her beach holiday show the curvy brunette frolicking happily with the kids — Sienna, 11, and 4-year-old twins Angelica and Joseph — and a pet dog.

Coming home from such a relaxing vacation to find her home robbed was “one of the worst moments” of her life.

Police sources say the point of entry was likely the roof, which was damaged. “They got through the skylight,” a source said.