CHLOE Sevigny (above) can be bought - for a high price. The “Big Love” star was paid a cool $50,000 to host a New Year’s Eve party at the Gansevoort Hotel in South Beach, according to musictoob.com. (Guests, on the other hand, had to shell out $225 to attend.) Sevigny - who told this month’s Esquire, “I don’t know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It’s embarrassing” - spent New Year’s Day on the beach reading The Post.

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THE tabloid gravy train for the family of Britney Spears has derailed now that Kent Brownridge is publishing the American version of OK! magazine. Brownridge, a veteran of Rolling Stone, tightened OK!’s purse strings and severed the magazine’s relationship with the Spears clan. Before his arrival, the Spears family sold OK! exclusives on everything from Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy to Britney’s first photo shoot with her kids. Now patrirch Jamie Spears refuses to work with OK!, and the mag bans its staff from Spears events. A rep for OK! denied any schism: “We always follow the Spears - in fact, Britney is on our current cover, and we’ll continue running stories about them. We need them, and they need us, and we both know it.”

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony walked the red carpet together at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

Lopez — who was not wearing her wedding ring — donned a mashed gold bugle beaded embroidered long draped dress by Marchesa.

The couple’s major public outing comes a month after multiple sources confirmed to Us Weekly that their marriage is at a breaking point.

“They both didn’t wear their rings on purpose,” a mutual pal of the married couple of four years (who renewed their vows in October) told Us. “Nothing Jennifer does is without purpose.”

Anthony’s rep has insisted, “They are doing great.”

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The Golden Globes turned emotional Sunday night, with the naming of Heath Ledger as best supporting dramatic actor for his role as the Joker in the summer blockbuster The Dark Knight.

Presenter Demi Moore announced that a brief clip of Ledger’s work in the film had been prepared. Afterwards, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan accepted Ledger’s posthumous award, and said he did so with “a mixture of sadness and incredible pride.”

Nolan said that rather than dwelling upon the gap left by Ledger’s death he preferred to concentrate on “the incredible place in the history of world cinema he built for himself.”

In another emotional moment, Sally Hawkins, acclaimed for her role as a North London schoolteacher in the comedy Happy-Go-Lucky, was named best actress in a comedy or musical – over as she called them, such “goddesses”] as Meryl Streep, Frances McDormand and Emma Thompson.

As a tearful Hawkins became choked up on the stage, Thompson flashed her hand signals to make sure she was okay.

Just before, British comedian Ricky Gervais cracked up the crowd when he reminded the evening’s supporting actress honoree Kate Winslet, for The Reader, that she’d win if she did a Holocaust movie. (That was the plotline of Winslet’s guest appearance on Gervais’s HBO series Extras).

The Jonas Brothers presented the best animated feature Globe to the makers of Disney-Pixar’s WALL-E.

Jennifer Lopez Starts the Show
Jennifer Lopez kicked off the show by presenting the night’s first award. “Hello! Mama talking! Mama talking!” she said as she tried to quiet the crowd to read the names of the nominees.

Within a minute, “Mama” announced the evening’s first winner, Kate Winslet, as the best supporting actress, for The Reader. In it, Winslet plays a German woman with a hidden past for her activities during World War II.

Clutching her trophy and unwrapping a sheet of paper, Winslet explained the length of her speech by saying, “I have a habit of not winning.”

To her husband – and Revolutionary Road director – Sam Mendes, she said, “I’m sorry I was so mental at the end.” Then, she waved to her two children, Mia and Joe, and said, “Look, I won!”

Bruce Springsteen, winning for his best song from The Wrestler, said laughing, “This is the only time I’ll be in competition with Clint Eastwood. It felt pretty good too.”

In the small screen division, Anna Paquin was honored for her leading role as a vampire lover on the HBO dramatic series True Blood, while Gabriel Byrne – who wasn’t at the ceremony – won as best actor for his starring role on the same network’s In Therapy.

Back to the Glitz
Billed as “the glamorous return of the Golden Globes,” Sunday night’s 66th awards ceremony, airing on NBC, brought an influx of stars to the Beverly Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom for a champagne banquet – a stark contrast to last year’s scaled-down telecast owing to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Last year’s situation also prevented Steven Spielberg from being presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement, an omission to be rectified this year.

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“Slumdog Millionaire” lived up to its underdog theme at Sunday’s Golden Globes, sweeping all four of its categories, including best drama and director for Danny Boyle.

Kate Winslet won two Globes all on her own, best dramatic actress for “Revolutionary Road” and supporting actress for “The Reader.” “The Wrestler” also had two, dramatic actor for Mickey Rourke and best song for Bruce Springsteen .

“Golden Globes, or the GGs as we very affectionately refer to them — your mad, pulsating affection for our film is much appreciated. Really, deeply appreciated,” Boyle said.

“Slumdog Millionaire” also won best screenplay and musical score, firming up its prospects for the Academy Awards. The film features a generally unknown cast in the story of an orphan boy in Mumbai who rises from terrible hardship to become a champ on India’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” all the while trying to reunite with a lost love from his childhood.

“We really weren’t expecting to be here in America at all at one time, so it’s just amazing to be here,” said Simon Beaufoy, whose winning script was adapted from Vikas Swarup’s novel “Q & A.”

Winslet, who has previously been nominated five times without winning at both the Globes and Oscars, won for her role as a woman in a crumbling marriage in “Revolutionary Road” and as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in “The Reader.”

“Revolutionary Road” was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, and reunited her with her “Titanic” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio .

To DiCaprio, Winslet gushed: “I’ve loved you for 13 years and your performance in this film is nothing short of spectacular.” To Mendes, she added: “Thank you for directing this film, babe, and thank you for killing us every single day and really enjoying us actually being in such horrific pain.”

Woody Allen ’s Spanish romance “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” won for best musical or comedy film.

The three films that led the Globe field with five nominations each — “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Doubt” and “Frost/Nixon” — all were shut out.

As expected, the late Heath Ledger earned the supporting-actor Globe for his diabolical turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight.” The Globe win boosts Ledger’s prospects for the supporting-actor honor at the Oscars, whose nominations come out Jan. 22, the one-year anniversary of the actor’s death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

The award was accepted by “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, who said he and his collaborators were buoyed by the enormous acclaim and acceptance the film and Ledger’s performance have gained worldwide.

“All of us who worked with Heath on ‘The Dark Knight’ accept with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride,” Nolan said. “After Heath passed, you saw a hole ripped in the future of cinema.”

Only one actor has ever won a posthumous Oscar, best-actor recipient Peter Finch for 1976’s “Network.”

Rourke won for a role as a former wrestling star who gets a last chance at glory in the ring, a theme that mirrors the actor’s life after he derailed his career with bad-boy behavior.

“It’s been a very long road back for me,” said Rourke, who poured out his thanks to “The Wrestler” director Darren Aronofsky.

“I’ve said this before, in sports especially which I can relate to, really, truly great players come around every 30 years, and I really, truly believe Darren is one of those cats,” Rourke said.

Other acting winners were Sally Hawkins as musical or comedy actress for her role as an eternal optimist in “Happy-Go-Lucky”; and Colin Farrell for musical or comedy actor for “In Bruges,” in which he plays a hit man laying low in a Belgian tourist town.

Hawkins, a relatively unknown British actress and newcomer to Hollywood’s awards scenes, was visibly nervous accepting her prize.

“I’ll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me,” said Hawkins, thanking family, cast mates and collaborators on the film, including director Mike Leigh.

The robot romance “WALL-E” won for best animated feature. Director Andrew Stanton thanked producer Pixar Animation and distributor Walt Disney, saying the unusual love story between two robots who communicate in beeps and squeaks “couldn’t have been made anywhere else.”

The foreign-language film prize went to Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir,” director Ari Forman’s animated documentary about a soldier struggling to recall suppressed memories of his involvement in the war with Lebanon.

Among TV categories, “30 Rock” won best comedy series, with stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin earning the acting Globes in a musical or comedy. “Mad Men” won best TV drama.

The 66th annual Globes, the town’s second-biggest movie celebration after the Academy Awards, returned to their somewhat boozy glory.

Last year’s Globe show was scrapped after stars said they would stay away in honor of picket lines by the Writers Guild of America, which was engaged in a bitter strike against producers. In its place was a briskly paced news conference where winners were announced from a podium.

The Globes serve as a barometer for potential Oscar contenders, often singling out deserving newcomers who might have been overlooked among bigger-name stars. Relative unknown Hilary Swank won for dramatic actress at the Globes for 1999’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” then went on to an upset win at the Oscars over Annette Bening , who had been considered the front-runner for “American Beauty.” This year’s Oscar ceremony comes on Feb. 22.

The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 90 reporters covering show business for overseas outlets.

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Eva Mendes

America Ferrera

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Rachel Griffiths

Lisa Rinna and husband Harry Hamlin

Adrian Grenier

Mark Wahlberg

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RAY Liotta had to channel Henry Hill, the mobster he played in “Goodfellas,” to dispatch a jerky fan. The actor was on a West Palm Beach-Los Angeles flight last weekend with his daughter, Karsen, when “some gold-chained, pot-bellied, middle-aged guy busted into first class and asked for an autograph,” our spy says. “Ray was cool and signed.” But during a layover in Dallas, the fan approached again, this time asking him to sign as “Your friend, Henry Hill.” When Liotta said no, “the guy, like a madman, started snapping pictures of Ray with his cellphone. Ray stormed over, grabbed the phone and didn’t return it until the guy agreed to whatever he said,” the witness said. “But at the luggage carousel in LA, the guy inches toward Ray and goes, ‘Hey, Henry, is the loot from the Lufthansa heist in one of these suitcases?’ Liotta snapped, ‘I’m going to suitcase your ass if you don’t get the [bleep] outta my face!’ The fan finally got the message and bolted.”

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John Travolta, who is mourning the death of his 16-year-old son Jett, has canceled his appearance at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, his rep said.

The actor — whose latest movie, Bolt, is nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for his duet with costar Miley Cyrus (”I Thought I Lost You”) — was scheduled to present.

On Thursday, Travolta and wife Kelly Preston held a memorial service for Jett in their Ocala, Fla., hometown. Lisa Marie Presley, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood were among the celeb guests.

Jett died of a seizure disorder Jan. 2 while vacationing with his family in Grand Bahamas.

“John just adored him,” his pal Tom Cruise recently said.

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