Boxer Oscar De La Hoya is slapping away photos that appear to show him dressed in drag — as well as claims that the married champ carried on a kinky, year-long affair with a New York stripper.

X17online.com yesterday posted six photos that show a man resembling the welterweight bruiser wearing fishnet stockings and panties. One shot has the man sporting red boxing gloves and stiletto heels. In another, he's sporting a woman's wig while bent over.

"Yes, people, this is the tough guy, champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, all prettied up for the camera!" the paparazzi site declares. "Wonder what his wife Millie will say when she sees these!"

De La Hoya's rep, Debbie Caplan, maintains the pictures "are Photoshopped. They're not real. His head's too small and it doesn't even look like his body."

The photos are being peddled by a Scores West dancer, according to R. Couri Hay, the Gotham magazine columnist who scored the first interview with the twentysomething woman.

"She says she took the photos at the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia on May 17," Hay tells us. "I fully believe she is telling the truth. She had been reluctant to talk. But now that she's being called a liar, she's ready to sell her story. And, believe me, she has a lot of details."

A friend of the unnamed woman says that De La Hoya would regularly invite her and other party pals to join him when he left his family at home in Puerto Rico. "He'd send a private plane or fly them first-class," says the friend. "They'd meet up in hotels, where the party could go on for days. There was a lot of tequila. It involved men and women. They indulged his every whim and taste.

"He wore size 9 ladies shoes. He also liked wearing thigh-high nylons. He liked sex games. He and the girl would sit in a chair that they'd pretend was a motorcycle. He'd pretend he was the girl on the back of motorcycle. She'd be the guy. He'd grab her around the waist and squeal, 'Faster! Faster!'"

Caplan called the claims "absurd" and accused the woman of being "out for money."

De La Hoya has been the target of several sexual harassment claims. In 1998, a woman accused the Golden Boy of raping her when she was 15 years old. The suit was eventually dropped after L.A. police failed to find sufficient evidence to bring charges.

Hay says the woman stands by her story: "She's very disappointed that Oscar isn't coming to terms with his feminine side."

Maybe Marv Albert, who knows something about cross-dressing, could call the shots on this one.

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After generating 8 million hits with his manic fanboy rant defending Britney Spears, YouTube star Chris Crocker is getting his own TV show. 44 Blue Productions has inked a deal with the 19-year-old, who lives in his grandparents' basement in Tennessee, and will bring us what they call "the Chris Crocker experience." Our idea for Episode 1? Chris becomes hysterical when trying to decide between Hot Pockets or Top Ramen.

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Sometimes a little "work" doesn't work in Hollywood.

Christina Ricci and Emile Hirsch will tear up the screen next summer in a live-action remake of the old "Speed Racer" cartoon.

But a source close to the writer/directors, the Wachowski siblings, tells us their earlier choices were Rose McGowan and Zac Efron.

McGowan, 34, has admitted to having plastic surgery for an eye injury related to a car accident. But casting skeptics suspect she has had much more done, and that it cost her the role.

"The studio felt like she was hard to recognize and worried that by the time the movie hit theaters, fans might not know who she was," says our insider.

A rep for the actress said "she was not pursuing this role."

Efron, meanwhile, may be taking over the world with the "High School Musical" franchise, but his youth worked against him for the part of Speed.

"During his auditions, Zac never connected to the romantic lead in the reading," says our source. "By the second round, the casting crew didn't feel he was believable as a leading man/hero."

Don't sweat it, Zac — you never would have lived down the character's little red neckerchief, anyway.


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MTV doesn't want the new CW series "Gossip Girl" to overshadow its own gossipy reality show, "The Hills." MTV wasn't thrilled when "Hills" stars Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port RSVP'd to go to the "Gossip Girl" premiere event at Tenjune the other night. An insider said, "MTV saw their names on the tip sheet and didn't want their stars promoting a competing show." The "Hills" girls, who hosted an event for the musical "Legally Blonde" instead, hung out later with the "Gossip Girl" cast at Marquee. A rep for MTV said, "The girls' hosting duties were on their schedule for weeks."

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Colin Farrell has been the toast of Canada this week, after lending a homeless man in Toronto a hand.

A source close to Farrell tells Usmagazine.com that the 31-year-old actor met the man he only knows as David in 2003 when he was filming The Recruit. "Colin had become friendly with David because David was living on the streets near where Colin was living during filming," Farrell's pal explains.

At the time, a local radio station was offering $1,000 to any listener who could get Farrell into the studio, a situation that was causing the actor grief. Seeing a way to remedy two dilemmas, the source tells Us that Farrell approached David with a deal: come to the radio station with me, and you get the grand.

In Toronto again last week promoting his new movie, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, Farrell again crossed paths with David, who is still homeless. The Farrell source tells Us that David was sleeping across the street from the Intercontinental Hotel, where Farrell was doing interviews for the movie. When the area became swarmed with press, Farrell invited David to hop into a car with him to escape the crowds. As the two caught up, David revealed that his sleeping bag had been stolen. Farrell took David to a camping store and equipped him with pants, socks, shoes, hats, warm boots, a sleeping bag and a backpack to put everything in.

Following the shopping trip, the source tells Us that Colin gave David some money "for first and last month's rent and then dropped him off at Hemingway's [a local restaurant] for a burger."

Despite what has been reported elsewhere, the source says that Farrell did not offer help because it was David's birthday, or take the man to a Chanel party later that evening.

Farrell is surprised by the attention he's gotten, his friend tells Us: "He doesn't do it for publicity. When he does premieres in Ireland it always goes to charity. He's always doing things like that but he never talks about it. People dwell on the bad boy, but he's a nice, normal person and financially in a position to help people."

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