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During Oscar Week, one would expect exclusive scenes — not crime scenes. Yet that’s what the launch party for photog Patrick McMullen’s new book, Glamour Girls, nearly turned into when millions of dollars in diamonds went missing.

Guests like Dita Von Teese were offered luxury jewels by Leviev to don for the bash, as over 800 karats’ worth were delivered to the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood on Tuesday night.

Carted in a Brinks armored truck and accompanied by 20 armed guards, the baubles turned the hotel’s terrace into a Fortress of Bling. Some L.A. social types, however, had a different plan when they snuck through a side door and escaped to the hotel restaurant for a private dinner.

L.A. ladies like Brooke Davenport and Cornelia Guest sat down for supper in the hired jewels without alerting their security guards, sending panic through the event as organizers tried to locate the missing jewels. When the ladies turned up just one room away, they weren’t punished for eluding their keepers.

At midnight, however, the ladies “turned into pumpkins. After the last glass of champagne was drunk, the guards came back and took the jewelry. They literally stripped it off at the table.”

Dita didn’t mind, iced-out to the tune of roughly $20 million (above). The 35-year-old burlesque star compensated the next day by scooping up some Christian Louboutins in the shoemaker’s Beverly Hills boutique.

No word on how long the bombshell will be in town, but she may want to avoid the music scene. Ex-hubby Marilyn Manson is scheduled to perfrom in Los Angeles tomorrow night.

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Burlesque artist/ex-Marilyn Manson handler Dita Von Teese just signed on to be the new face and bust of WonderBra. Dita will be designing her own burlesque-inspired underwear line for the brand. So save up for that giant prop martini glass so you can climb on in and give your significant other a show straight from the 40's! Dita will be featured in a WonderBra photoshoot in Paris for the next few weeks. Besides rolling around in champagne glasses, and fanning herself with giant feathers, Dita is also an author. And corset wearer. She gets her waist down to sixteen and a half inches. Is that allowed? How do you swallow potato chips? Then again, I can't see her being much for the snack food.

Photos: Bauer-Griffin Online

ATTENTION, Dita Von Teese: You have a package coming from Jeremy Piven. The “Entourage” star picked out two black satin, sequined mini-dresses from the Be Seduced line for a woman he told a swag-suite clerk he had a crush on. But as he browsed at Kari Feinstein’s suite at Social Hollywood in LA last week, he was forced to come clean about the identity of his “brunette and curvy” lady friend because he didn’t know her size. He finally told the clerk the dresses were for Von Teese, the burlesque-dancing ex-wife of Marilyn Manson. “He said he likes her, but it’s not official yet,” the employee told Page Six. Piven’s rep said the duo are “not dating. He’s busy shooting a movie.” But apparently he’s not too busy to flirt. Von Teese’s lawyer, Keith Fink, told us Piven has seen her performance and he shyly said hello to her when he ran into her at an LA newsstand right before he bought the dresses. “She is single, and she’s not dating, so he should step up to the plate because there’s a lot of guys interested,” said Fink.

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DON’T mess with Dita Von Teese’s money. The burlesque goddess is suing an LA-based dominatrix, Cynthia Butler, who, she claims, stole her half of the rights (and cash) to “Slick City,” a movie Von Teese made in 2001 with producer Bob Zahurak. “Dita had agreed to share profits and split the rights to her films with [Zahurak],” said Von Teese’s lawyer, Keith Fink. But after Zahurak died, Butler took over his company and now claims she alone owns the film and its proceeds. “She’s trying to take Dita’s profits,” Fink said. “Dita just wants the film back and all the past royalties.”

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