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Underwear heiress wins lawsuit against husband

An underwear heiress won a legal victory Wednesday against her deadbeat husband — whom she had slapped with a $10 million lawsuit last year for looting her trust fund to shower luxury goods on his mistress — after the two-timer failed to show up for court.

“I’m assuming he’s slithered under some rock in Queens,” Candice Feinberg Lalicata’s attorney told The Post after a judge ruled for his client.

Lalicata’s lawyer, Adam Perlmutter, successfully served her estranged hubby, a former tanning salon employee named Steven Lalicata, 30, with the revenge suit at his last known address, in Astoria, Queens, in June.

Candice, 39, is the daughter of retired garment-industry honcho Herbert Feinberg, who is known for pioneering the first seamless panties.

The divorced mom had said in a sworn statement to Manhattan Supreme Court that she got hitched to Mr. Wrong after meeting him at the Beach Bum Tanning Salon in 2010.

The marital bliss didn’t last long as Steven and his buddies began begging the heiress for cash — allegedly to appease Howard Beach gangsters who were threatening to whack him over gambling debts.

But Candice quickly got wise to the con and confronted her hubby’s alleged mistress, a Bank of American employee from New Jersey.

In an August 2012 text message, Candice wrote to the woman, Diana Fernandez, “That money he’s spending is MY money he stole.”

Fernandez shot back, “He won’t leave you. Especially if you are his cash cow,” court papers say.

Steven allegedly treated Fernandez to shopping sprees at Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Bloomingdale’s — all on his wife’s dime, the suit says.

Fernandez’s attorney has denied that his client was romantically involved with Steven Lalicata.

Steven could not be reached for comment.

On Wednesday, Justice Anil Singh ordered a future proceeding to determine the amount Steven will have to pay Candice for the ruse.