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FOREVER YOUNG: A woman identified in court papers only as “E.V.” sued her plastic surgeon and KABC-TV, alleging that they invaded her privacy by showing her “before” and “after” photos to “millions” on the Nov. 23 broadcast of the Channel 7 evening news.

E.V. seeks unspecified damages from Dr. Renato Calabria and ABC, claiming in her Los Angeles Superior Court suit that she had refused three separate requests, made through the doctor’s staff, to allow her photos to be publicized.

“No, I can’t do it. This is very personal for me,” she told the staffers, according to the suit.

Court papers say the surgery was performed April 21, and she returned to Calabria’s offices in May for follow-up photos.

Calabria, court papers allege, referred to her as his “model patient.”

E.V. claims she “relied upon Dr. Calabria to maintain the confidentiality of information concerning the surgical procedure that she was to undergo, and to refrain from disclosing her identity as a patient.” She charges that the surgeon never discussed displaying her photos prior to the operation.

Channel 7 referred our call to a network spokesman in New York, who said the company doesn’t comment on pending lawsuits.

Calabria said he hasn’t been served with the suit. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” he said.

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SAME OLD SONG: Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne isn’t taking it easy these days. Instead, he’s in court, accusing a Florida ad agency of violating his copyright on the hit 1972 rock song “Take It Easy,” which he co-wrote with Glenn Frey and the Eagles turned into gold.

Browne and his company, Swallow Turn Music, claim On Air Productions has poached on his song with a series of radio ads with the remarkably similar jingle “Make it Easy.” He seeks unspecified damages and an injunction in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Brown is best known for those oldies but goodies “Doctor My Eyes” and “Running on Empty.”

No one at On Air Productions was available for comment.

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NAKED HOLLYWOOD: Producer Aaron Spelling may be the king of jiggle television, but he takes exception to being portrayed as a pimp or a pornographer. And so, Spelling has filed a $100-million libel suit against smut publisher Bob Guccione Jr. and his magazine Gear.

Spelling claims a recent edition of the allegedly “sleazy, sex driven magazine” lists him as a “senior editor,” making it appear he was responsible for a nude photo spread of Jessica Biel, a 17-year-old actress who plays a minister’s daughter on Spelling’s “Seventh Heaven.”

Biel recently tried to get out of her Spelling contract two years early, and posed nude for the magazine in an attempt to get fired from the wholesome show, says Spelling’s attorney, Bert Fields. So far, Spelling hasn’t let her go.

Spelling charges in his suit that Guccione made it appear that he “approved, endorsed and participated” in exploiting an actress under the age of 18. The suit also claims the magazine quotes Spelling as saying that he “owned” Biel.

Making matters worse, Spelling’s suit charges that after he complained, Guccione allegedly said some pretty nasty things about him and his actress daughter, Tori, to the New York Post. Suffice it to say the only word used that we can print here is “cardboard.”

Guccione said in a prepared statement that putting Spelling’s name on the masthead as “senior editor” was a joke. He stands by the Biel spread and says he won’t be intimidated by the lawsuit.

So there.

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IGGY PUG: Lisa Ritz remembers the day Iggy the pug came into her life. It was Dec. 7, and her marriage was breaking up. But there on Melrose Avenue, shivering beside a homeless man was the cutest little puppy, something new to love. Ritz gave the homeless guy $100, and 3-month-old Iggy was hers.

He made himself right at home, curling up in bed each night with Ritz and her two cats. But, after only three weeks, Iggy vanished after Ritz dropped him off at a boarding kennel just for pugs. Ritz is accusing animal rescue volunteer Sherry Woodbury and an organization called Little Angels Pug Rescue of dog-napping.

Ritz, a publicist in the music industry, is doggone mad. She filed petty theft charges in Pasadena, as well as a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court. She claims Woodbury falsely accused her of abandoning Iggy, renamed him and gave him to another family without her consent.

According to the civil suit, Woodbury’s pug boarding facility is “used by a number of well-known celebrities, including actress Pamela Anderson and singer Belinda Carlisle.”

“I thought it’d be nice if he stayed at a place where he could play with all the other little pugs,’ Ritz said in a phone interview.

Five hours after she dropped Iggy off, Ritz says, she was pining for her pug. When she returned to pick him up, Ritz claims, Woodbury refused to to give him back.

Her civil suit, filed by attorney David M. Cordrey, seeks unspecified damages and accuses Woodbury of stealing the dog. Neither Woodbury nor other representatives of Little Angels Pug Rescue returned our phone call. A hearing in the criminal case is scheduled for Tuesday in Pasadena.

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SMILE: Ending six years of litigation, ABC has paid more than $900,000 to a Psychic Services Network worker who claimed a secret videotape shown on “PrimeTime Live” trashed his reputation.

Mark Sanders received a check from the network last week, said his attorney, Neville Johnson. Sanders’ suit claimed an “ABC spy” who secretly taped him and his co-workers at the psychic telephone counseling firm came in with an agenda to portray the service as “a scam and illegitimate.”

The footage aired on the news magazine “PrimeTime Live” in February 1993. In 1994, a jury awarded Sanders $335,000 in compensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages. ABC appealed, but the verdict recently was upheld.

With interest and fees, the total payout rose to $933,992, Johnson said.

An ABC spokeswoman said that the network will continue to use hidden cameras “sparingly.”