Excite 3,400. Yahoo gave us 45. And like Kathy Ireland and Frederique's pages, Claudia's official site will obviously have no scandalous pictures. It will give her the opportunity to be presented in Cyberspace the way she wishes to be presented in Cybersp ace. Does she have a computer? Yes, but no Internet connection of her own yet. That will come in time. She currently surfs the Web on her brother's computer. She uses her own computer now for word processing.

A story had been circulating that Carl Lagerfield thinks Claudia has crested as a supermodel and that her star is on the decline. Lagerfield denies having told anyone that, but Claudia no longer walks the catwalk for Chanel. We had heard that she had bake d a cake for Lagerfield for his birthday, thus dispelling the rumor. We asked her about it. "Don't believe everything you read in the paper," she said wryly. That left us wondering. It was clear she didn't want to discuss it.

What, we asked, is she planning to do for Christmas? She's heading back to Germany, she told us, to spend time with her family. She's looking forward to getting back home. The family is close.

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