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' January 22, 2007 -- THE sizzling secrets of The Vault - the notorious S&M club where thrill-seeking celebs and swingers mingled in the bad old days of the Meatpacking District - are about to be unlocked. Anthony Marini, who owned the dungeon-like venue from 1992-2001, is shopping a tell-all book that he says will name names and blow the lid off scandals involving the rich and famous and the NYPD.

"Some of it is so controversial, there's going to be heat," Marini told Page Six. "It goes into police corruption. I have cops getting involved with transvestites - one who was a beat cop and is still on the force now as a lieutenant. And I'm going to name him."

He says a prominent art figure once paid two NYPD cops in full uniform to beat him. "And I have documents showing how the mob set up a phony holding company to take over the Vault building during the redevelopment of the West Side Highway area and swindle the state out of $2 million."

The Vault, which occupied the space at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue that's now Stephen Hanson's popular Italian restaurant Vento, was where singles and couples, straights and gays got naked and played bondage and spanking games. But after Madonna shot parts of her "Sex" book there, it became a trendy, more mainstream celebrity hangout.

"Lillo Brancato, the 'Sopranos' actor charged with murdering a cop, was here every week. Heather Locklear came - she would get a foot massage. Robert Downey Jr. and Corey Feldman came in," Marini recalls. "I remember Tommy Lee coming in with Pam Anderson and a Pam Anderson look-alike and going up to the couples-only floor and playfully whipping and spanking them - not too hard - as he drank Champagne." Reps for Lee and Anderson did not return Page Six's calls. "

One night," Marini says an A-list Hollywood male star "was here. The paparazzi were outside and we knew we had to get him out. So we put him in a long, long coat and a hat and had him walk out the back door with a bag of garbage like one of our porters." '