New York Post

Lagerfield’s cat may get millions

- By LIA EUSTACHEWI­CH

Somebody’s about to get a golden litter box.

Among those who could inherit a big hunk of designer Karl Lagerfeld’s $125 million fortune is the love of his life — his celebrity cat, Choupette.

Lagerfield, 85, who died Tuesday in Paris, made it clear in the past that his blue-eyed Birman kitty meant so much to him that she would find a place in his will.

“Among others, yes,” Lagerfeld said when asked if the cat would be an heiress during an interview last year with Numéro magazine. “Don’t worry, there is enough for everyone.”

Lagerfeld often gushed about how much he loved Choupette — whom he got as a newborn from Baptiste Giabiconi, a former male model, in 2011.

“There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals . . . I never thought I would fall in love like this with a cat,” Lagerfeld told CNN in 2013.

He never married, but had an 18-year relationsh­ip with Frenchman Jacques de Basche, who died of AIDS in 1989. Details of any will left by the designer were not available Wednesday.

The feline is famous herself, with more than 200,000 Instagram followers and 51,000 fol- lowers on Twitter. The accounts, run by social-media guru Ashley Tschudin, show Choupette living the luxe life on photo shoots and flying aboard private jets.

At home, the charmed cat has two maids who groom her four times a day, Fox News reported.

She enjoys the same meals her master did — at the dining table — and lounges on a $13,000 Zaha Hadid sofa.

When traveling, Choupette rides in style, in a $1,900 Louis Vuitton cat carrier.

“It was love at first sight. Baptiste was going on holiday and asked if he could leave her with the staff at my house while he was away,” Lagerfeld told Numéro in 2016.

“She was still a baby at the time, and I found her so cute that when Baptiste came home I said to him, ‘ Sorry but I’m keeping her!’ ”

The German-born creative director of Chanel and Fendi even once mused how much he and Choupette resembled each other in his old age.

“What is funny is that with all these whiskers, I look a lot like Choupette . . . We’re really like an old couple,” he told Numéro.

Meanwhile, AFP reported that Lagerfeld will be cremated and his ashes spread along with those of his mother, Elisabeth Bahlmann, and de Bascher.

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