Some of Barbra Streisand’s long-hidden secrets will be bared in a new tell-all by her ex-boyfriend Hollywood producer Jon Peters — who claims the beloved diva was sexually abused by a slimy movie mogul and had affairs with three of her leading men.

In the proposal for his memoir, “Studio Head,” which was sold last month to Harper- Collins for $700,000, Peters writes he “wanted to kill” Ray Stark, producer of “Funny Girl” and “The Way We Were,” when he learned that “Stark, an ogre of male chauvinistic casting-couch sexual entitlement, had molested both Lesley Ann [Warren] and Barbra when they were auditioning for him, and neither had ever really gotten over it.” Streisand’s publicist, Ken Sunshine, did not return repeated calls, nor did a rep for Warren.

Peters writes that “Barbra may have had her neuroses and insecurities, but getting men, the men every woman wanted, was not one of them.” He claims she confided in him that she’d had “life-imitates-art affairs with Robert Redford on ‘The Way We Were’ and Ryan O’Neal on ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and had just ended another with Kris Kristofferson, then at his hunkiest” in “A Star Is Born.” Reps for Redford and O’Neal didn’t return our calls, and Kristofferson’s rep had no comment.

The four-times-married hairdresser-turned-moviemaker also says he had a fling with a pre-”Basic Instinct” Sharon Stone, who “may have been a cyclone sexually, but a black hole where need was concerned . . . Not even [I] could turn her into the superstar she expected to be fast enough.” A rep for Stone had no comment.

Peters, who produced “Superman Returns” and “Batman,” says his other belt notches include Kim Basinger, Pamela Anderson, Nicollette Sheridan, Salma Hayek and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He brags he “became a Hollywood legend for seduction as much as production.”

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James told “Boomer & Craig” on WFAN Sports Radio that she met the singer-songwriter in Manhattan. “He had someone send for me [from] across the room,” James related. “He had a bunch of girls with him and he said, ‘We should [all] go back to my apartment.’ ” She said Mayer left first to avoid the paparazzi, and when they got to Mayer’s apartment, “We were all hanging out and everyone started to gradually leave. It was just he and I at this point. I told him, ‘I need some taxi money, I’m gonna go home now.’ ” Mayer asked James for her number and she gave it to him before leaving. She recalled, “He texted me throughout the entire night while I was at the hotel room,” leaving messages like, “Let me tuck you in. I want to see you.” While the show’s hosts labeled Mayer “a douche,” a friend of his shrugged it off, “He met her two years ago, it was not a big deal.”

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When the hip-hop czar played the University of Arizona for a paycheck of $750,000 last month, he demanded perks including a black Maybach with tinted windows, a 72-degree dressing room with Sapporo beer, vodka, tequila, two bottles of $300 champagne, “good quality” peanut butter and jelly, one martini shaker, 12 shot glasses and Marlboros, TheSmokingGun.com reports. But alas, the school nixed the booze, butts and car.

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Robin Williams, who had heart surgery eight weeks ago, says he and David Letterman “are now brotherhood of the zipper chests.”

Williams, appearing on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman” scheduled to air Wednesday, was referring to Letterman’s quintuple bypass heart surgery in 2000.

It was the 57-year-old actor’s first interview since surgery that replaced an aortic valve.

He joked that “I have one new valve and a repaired valve. I have a cow valve, which is great, and the grazing’s been fun.”

Williams said he noticed something was wrong with his heart when he was getting short of breath, “code for heart problem.”

Williams stars in the film “Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian,” which opens May 22.

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Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-boyfriend and two doctors pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they conspired to provide thousands of prescription pills to the former model before her overdose death two years ago.

The appearance of Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor in Superior Court set the stage for a preliminary hearing that all parties said could last at least two weeks.

Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose said there are 1,400 pages of discovery in the case, which was investigated for two years before charges were filed. Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau ordered documents in the case sealed, although attorneys said that about a quarter of the material has already been made public.

The hearing was brief and Smith’s name was never mentioned.

Stern, Eroshevich and Kapoor stood before Lousteau with their lawyers. The defendants said “yes” when she asked if they were pleading not guilty and when they agreed to delay the matter until June 8 for setting of the preliminary hearing date. They declined to comment outside court.

Stern’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, said he wanted the preliminary hearing to begin as soon as possible.

The commissioner granted a motion requiring each defendant to provide a handwriting sample and she transferred the case to a judge for the next hearing.

The prosecutor’s motion asked for the handwriting samples in order to authenticate Kapoor’s medical records on Smith and also to show that prescriptions written for Smith were picked up at pharmacies by Eroshevich, Stern or others designated by them who signed logs at the pharmacies. Sometimes, Rose said, they used Smith’s credit card.

Outside court, Stern’s lawyer was outspoken, exclaiming: “He did not commit a crime, period!”

Sadow said he had filed a demurrer, a legal document contending that the law under which Stern is charged does not apply to him.

“The statute deals with medical practitioners,” he said. “He is not a doctor.”

Sadow said he was not disputing the authenticity of Stern’s signature on any documents signed by him.

Kapoor’s lawyer, Ellyn Garafalo, said he continues to practice medicine and his patients have been supportive.

“We have no doubt Dr. Kapoor will be exonerated,” she said.

Smith, 39, was declared dead at a hospital after being found unconscious in her Florida hotel room in 2007. A medical examiner determined she died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs.

Prosecutors allege Stern was the principal enabler in a conspiracy to provide Smith thousands of prescription pills.

The defendants each face six counts including conspiracy, and up to five years, eight months in prison if convicted.

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The scene that met investigating officers was appalling.

An intruder alarm had summoned police to the Hollywood home of actress Lindsay Lohan, and the thieves who had turned over the apartment clearly had no regard for her possessions.
The apartment looked like it had been ransacked, but closer forensic examination discovered that the mess was actually left by Li-Lo herself.

Officers were called to her home at 3pm yesterday after the alarm was tripped.

There were pry marks on the back door and tampering with the back window.

LAPD’s finest discovered that no-one had entered the house and nothing had been stolen, but officer Karen Rayner said the place was so messy that they had to contact the actress - who is currently in Paris - and ask: “Is it normally like this, or did intruders do it?”

Meanwhile, Lindsay has revealed she is planning to move to London to help get over her split from Sam Ronson.

She hopes a new start here would keep her out of the spotlight.

She said: ‘I like London, people aren’t as judgmental. It’s more about the fashion or music industry, not about movies and movie stars.

‘It’s a different scene. I want to be on my own for a while.

‘I didn’t get into this business to be a celebrity. I’ve been a target for a long time.’

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It’s a pose often favoured by inebriated students - a hand grasping a fellow reveller’s behind.

But at 50-years of age Madonna should know better.

The mother-of-three was pictured striking the unusual pose with fellow guests Amber Rose, the model girlfriend of Kanye West.

That were at the star-studded Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Ball earlier this month.

Of course, Madonna may have thought the photo would never be viewed by the general public. But Amber Rose was so pleased with it that she posted it on her Twitter page - sharing it with the world.

Yesterday Amber’s boyfriend Kanye, also in the Madonna picture, made it clear that he doesn’t share his girlfriend’s passion for the social networking page.

In a rant on his blog the rapper chastised those pretending to be him.

‘Why would I use Twitter?’ he wrote ‘I’m too busy actually being creative most of the time and if I’m not and I’m just lying on the beach I wouldn’t tell the world.

‘Everything that Twitter offers I need less of.’

Perhaps he should share his views with his girlfriend.

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The day after Carrie Prejean was told she could keep her Miss California crown, Shanna Moakler has resigned, she confirmed exclusively.

“Since the press conference yesterday, I had a chance to think about what has taken place, and I feel that at this time it is in my best interest to resign from the Miss California USA organization,” Moakler tells Us.

“I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it, or the contracts I signed committing myself as a youth,” she continues. “I want to be a role model for young women with high hopes of pageantry, but now feel it more important to be a role model for my children. I am sorry and hope I have not let any young supporters down but wish them the best of luck in fulfilling their dreams.”

Miss California USA pageant director Keith Lewis told Us in a statement: “Shanna has, and will continue to be, a large part of my life. Although I am sad she has come to this decision, I will always respect the convictions that brought her to this place.”

Prejean, 21, first ignited controversy at the April 19 pageant when she told judge Perez Hilton that she believed marriage should be between only a man and a woman, igniting a cultural debate. The runner-up said her answer cost her the crown.

Prejean later announced that she’ll be launching a campaign opposing gay marriage with the National Organization for Marriage.

Shortly after, Moakler announced she was appearing in new ad supporting gay rights. She shot a print ad April 28 slamming Proposition 8, the initiative that bans gay marriage in California.

On Tuesday, pageant owner Donald Trump announced Prejean would keep her crown despite failing to reveal she had posed in her underwear as a teenager.

(Prejean said the pictures were leaked to humiliate her because of her anti-gay marriage views, calling it a “vicious and mean-spirited” attacks. Even more photos hit the web before Trump’s press conference Tuesday morning.)

On Monday, California pageant officials announced that Prejean violated her contract by lobbying on behalf of an anti-gay-marriage group and by failing to reveal that she had posed in her underwear as a teenager.

They appointed Tami Farrell, her runner-up, as “Beauty of California Ambassador” to fulfill any duties that Prejean might not be able to carry out.

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