Story of a sticky-fingered scribe

The next chapter of novelist and socialite Suzanne Corso’s life will be written in criminal court.

Corso — who is membership director of Manhattan’s new Playboy Club — is charged with shoplifting luxury goods from the Battery Park City branch of Saks Fifth Avenue.

Corso, who documented her rags to riches tale in a series of

romans a clef, is accused of stuffing two Yves Saint Laurent wallets, a dress and a pair of pants into her handbag at the Saks in Brookfield Place on Wednesday morning.

She was arraigned Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court on petty larceny and possession of stolen property charges, and released on her own recognizance.

“My client denies all the allegations in the arrest report, and we feel confident that we’ll be able to dispute it to her satisfaction,” said her attorney, Vincent Martinelli.

Corso says she grew up on food stamps and welfare in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and that her exhusband was a big shot in the finance world.

But everything started to unravel after the 2008 market crash, when Corso said she and her husband lost around $100 million.

She later told Fox Business Channel their descent caused her to reevaluate her priorities.

“It makes you realize, what’s money really worth?” she said. “What am I doing? It’s a house, who cares?”

Last year, Corso’s husband filed for divorce.

At present, she’s making do with her job as membership director of Playboy Club New York, which opens this month on W. 42nd St. in Hell’s Kitchen.

Corso declined to comment on the shoplifting incident.