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- BY SHAYNA JACOBS With Alec Tabak

A WOMAN busted for allegedly looting a Manhattan apartment she booked from a woman she met on Airbnb didn’t stop there, prosecutor­s said.

She also stiffed the owner on the rent.

Victoria Doramus was released from jail Wednesday after admitting she stole Cartier and Rolex watches, handbags, Louis Vuitton luggage and clothing from a woman who rented her Bowery apartment to Doramus, authoritie­s said.

Doramus, 32, paid for the pad with “two separate checks that bounced” to Julie Maximova, Assistant District Attorney Meredith Dempsey said in court.

Doramus at first blamed the missing goods on someone she met “on Craigslist.”

“He came over and got my belongings mixed up with her belongings in the wrong bag,” she bizarrely told cops on Nov. 29.

She said she sold the watches but that the other items were still in a storage unit she kept in SoHo.

“I was going to give it back,” she later said. “I will pay her for the rent and return her stuff.”

Doramus pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the third degree in exchange for probation and an agreement to pay $2,400 in restitutio­n Wednesday as she was arraigned on her felony indictment.

She must also attend a mental health treatment program.

Maximova’s lavish were hawked timepieces by Doramus at a pawnshop but were later recovered.

The victim’s other missing items were returned, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Robert Stolz could not believe the valuables were available for the taking at Maximova’s apartment.

“This is someone who operates an Airbnb and leaves her Rolex and Cartier watches, her diamond necklace and her Louis Vuitton luggage there?” the stunned judge asked the prosecutor in court.

Doramus has had legal troubles before.

She was previously arrested in November 2015 for abusing her access to two corporate credit cards while employed at Rubenstein Public Relations.

Over a 10-day period in July 2015, she racked up $17,000 in unapproved charges to vendors including Southwest Airlines, Amazon and a dry cleaning business, court records show.

She entered into a plea agreement in that case in July and was ordered to serve 10 days of community service and pay $3,791 in restitutio­n to American Express.

Her attorney, Barry Agulnick, said she’s on her way to improving herself.

“She’ll be on probation. She’ll be taking therapy. She’ll straighten out her life,” he told the Daily News after her release last week.

He said Doramus “has emotional problems and psychologi­cal problems” that have led to a drug dependency.

Doramus had been held at Rikers Island on $15,000 bail since her Nov. 29 arrest.

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