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Tattle: Celebrity Twitterers: Glazing eyes, saving lives

AN ONLINE chain of posts involving Demi Moore apparently prompted police yesterday to go to the aid of a California woman who was having suicidal thoughts.

AN ONLINE chain of posts involving

Demi Moore

apparently prompted police yesterday to go to the aid of a California woman who was having suicidal thoughts.

San Jose Sgt. Ronnie Lopez says the department received a phone call early yesterday morning from a person in Dallas who was tipped off to a supposed suicide attempt through the social-networking site Twitter.

Moore, a popular celebrity Twitterer, was involved in a discussion on the site that began when a user sent the actress what appeared to be suicidal notes.

A message from a user named SandieGuy read: "Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn't waste time."

Moore, who writes under the handle "mrskutcher," re-Tweeted the disturbing message yesterday, adding: "Hope you are joking;" some followers of mrskutcher called the San Jose police.

Lopez says officers made immediate contact with a 48-year-old female resident of San Jose, Calif., and transferred her to a local hospital for "psychiatric evaluation."

He says there were no injuries.

* A nanny fired by Robert De

Niro has sued the actor for more than $40,000 in overtime pay.

Alexis Barry says in court papers that she was never paid for more than 750 hours of overtime and never took 10 vacation days. She began working for De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower, in August 2006, and says she was fired 10 months later - after she said she was going to quit. The couple have an 11-year-old son.

Barry says she is owed more than $40,000. She filed a lawsuit yesterday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.

De Niro spokesman Stan Rosenfield says he can't comment because he hasn't seen the lawsuit.

* Rapper Coolio has pleaded

not guilty to drug possession and battery charges.

The 45-year-old rapper, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey, entered his plea during an arraignment in Los Angeles yesterday.

He was arrested last month at Los Angeles International Airport, and later charged with felony cocaine possession, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, both misdemeanors. Coolio allegedly grabbed a screener's arm to prevent a search of his luggage.

* Hundreds of items from

Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch may still go on sale after a judge yesterday rejected a bid to have the King of Pop's one-time possessions returned to the singer. But the ruling probably won't be the last word on who ends up with them.

Jackson's production company was seeking the return of the collection of art, MTV Video Music Awards, crystal-encrusted gloves and nearly 2,000 other items removed from Jackson's former home before the sale begins on April 22. They have another motion for an injunction to stop the sale, slated to be heard on April 15.

Auctioneer Darren Julien and his attorney claimed victory after the hearing, saying they do not expect other efforts to block the sale to succeed.

"We have to proceed because we have no choice," Julien said.

His firm, Julien's Auction House, has spent more than $2 million arranging the sale of the Neverland items and could go bankrupt if the sale was stopped, his lawyer told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett Klein.

MJJ Productions sued Julien's Auction House last month, claiming Jackson hadn't authorized the sale of items taken from his former home at Neverland Ranch. *

-Daily News wire services