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Husband called ‘Secret’ CEO a ‘sweetheart’

Around the same time Victoria’s Secret CEO Sharen Turney was winding down an alleged torrid affair with Naples, Fla., luxury real estate broker Cliff Donenfeld, her husband, Charles, was praising her publicly.

Page Six exclusively revealed yesterday that 56-year-old millionaire CEO Sharen was carrying on an affair with Donenfeld for two years that began around 2008 after they’d met at a party. He said that soon after the lingerie mogul was telling him, “if I ended any other romantic entanglements, we could see each other every two weeks,” and they began a secret romantic relationship together.

But Sharen’s in-the-dark hubby Charles Turney said in a Capital Style 2010 profile on his wife — called “The Secret Behind the Sexy” — “Sharen’s an easy person to love. Sometimes we sit back and kind of pinch ourselves and go, ‘Wow, this has been a fun ride. Who knew?’ ”

Her husband of more than two decades added: “She’s just a sweetheart just a really good person to her core… I guess she rubs shoulders with corporate CEOs and celebrities and fashion icons, but I’m just proud of the fact that she treats everybody the same-with a smile, and warm, and friendly, with a disarmingly genuine manner.”

The profile of the Turneys also says: “[Sharen] often takes her husband… on trips or to events when possible” and that he “typically [joins] her for a week in Europe each summer. They’ve sat on the 50-yard-line with supermodels at the Super Bowl. And last year, they mingled backstage before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.”

But what isn’t mentioned is that Sharen’s secret lover Donenfeld was also going on trips with her at the same time, to New York, Florida and Columbus, Ohio, he said, where Victoria’s Secret is based and Turney lives with her family.

Charles further exclaims in the piece, “Sharen has friends all over the world.”

Donenfeld told us he never went to Europe with Turney, but that she texted him on her many trips abroad. In one text seen by Page Six, she tells her paramour she’s at Wimbledon.

A longtime friend of Sharen’s told Capital Style, “Sharen’s one of these people who has so many friends, because she’s more interested in them than she is in trying to get them interested in her. She’s like a pied piper. She sets this little tune. Sharen’s just a magnet.”