INTERNATIONAL STUFF 1840

Frank Kalder

One of the young ladies I used to babysit for grew up and worked for some famous fashion magazines in Australia and now has transferred to NY. She worked with Ivanka, when she first started. She said she was a terrible model. I have no opinion, I just know she'd be better than I could.

But damn, look at the job she has now. This job I COULD do. Well. Except of course for the being famous person and trendsetter whom everyone wants to emulate part. I probably couldn't do that part all that well.

10-2 NY POST-PAGE SIX...

--IVANKA Trump is gorgeous, successful, and . . . dating Lance Armstrong? Though hard to believe, that's the rumor on the West Coast. And Trump, who will be the new spokeswoman for Tiffany as well as working at her father The Donald's firm, has been spending a lot of time in L.A. recently shooting "The Apprentice." Armstrong is also known for having an eye for hot women and was most recently linked with

Paris Hilton. A rep for Trump didn't return calls.

--IT'S HAPPY trails again for horseback riders in the tony town of Bedford. We hear Ralph Lauren and Martha Stewart have agreed to open their properties to the Bedford Lanes Riding buttociation. Some irked equestrians blamed Ralph and Martha for cutting off traditional access to their land. But an buttociation insider swears the barbed wire was there before either tastemaker arrived.

--ELIZABETH HURLEY was in a hurry to make that ferry Thursday's Liberty

Island party celebrating Moet & Chandon's 120th anniversary. Never mind

that she was in a strapless gown. The gorgeous gal jumped into a golf cart, hit the gas and zoomed around the Statue of Liberty to the dock.

--IT DIDN'T matter that Petra Nemcova's boyfriend, James Blunt, was by her side at the Knoll Furniture Studios party: A bidding war broke out between two Wall Streeters vying to have dinner with the supermodel. The tab - $21,000 - will benefit Nemcova's Happy Hearts Fund, which she

started to help children who've suffered in natural disasters, like the

2004 tsunami that she survived.

A different version of the Liz Hurley story from the 3AM Girls

--LIZ Hurley held up a ferry for 20 minutes when her temper bubbled over. The star threw a strop after she was told she could not take champagne on board. Hurley, 41, was trying to get on the boat to return

to Manhattan after a party on Liberty Island in New York, it was revealed yesterday. She refused to give up her magnum of bubbly and three glbuttes following the event to celebrate the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Hurley, who calls champagne "the best drink in the world" eventually gave in and the ferry set off. Another guest said: "Everyone else graciously agreed to abide by the rules." In 2003 she flew into a rage when BA staff refused to upgrade her millionaire partner Arun Nayar.