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Supermodel’s military-style op to find missing dog

Russell Simmons’ supermodel girlfriend launched a military-style operation — replete with hostage negotiations and surveillance — in a desperate bid to get her missing Chihuahua back, according to the dog’s rescuers.

In a rambling recap that reads like a bad B-movie script, the Bodyguard Group of Beverly Hills recounted Wednesday how it demanded “proof of life” photos of German catwalker Hana Nitsche’s beloved Ivy and then deployed an “A Team of Elite Military members” to retrieve the precious pooch.

Nitsche got her dog back, but, as The Post’s Page Six reported Wednesday, she and her rap mogul beau won’t pay out a $5,000 reward, claiming that Ivy was the victim of a high-profile dognapping.
After Ivy went missing from Beverly Hills last week, Nitsche and Simmons hit Twitter and Craigslist with pleas to help find her.

The couple also called in the Bodyguard Group, which hires military veterans.

“For over three days, Hana Nitsche received blocked calls at [her] home and the callers used a voice altering machine to disguise their voices when they called her from the blocked number,” the company said in a statement.

The callers “ONLY asked about a reward and AT NO TIME offered to return the dog,” according to the firm.
As the model frantically papered her neighborhood with “missing” posters, “she was followed several times by a vehicle that closely matched the description of the vehicle parked in front of the house in Palmdale, Calif., where the dog was eventually recovered from,” Bodyguard noted.

The family that had the dog has said they found it and offered to return it, and denied stealing the dog or holding it hostage.