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The Us Weekly-Jessica Meisels feud is coming to a boil ever since we broke news this morning about the Fingerprint publicist's wage war with the tabloid's Ken Baker. As we told you exclusively today, Meisels is trying to recoup the fees she amassed doing PR work for Baker's Head To Hollywood poker tourney charity event in June. She's only looking for a few hundred dollars – opting to charge only the actual costs accrued, and not her labor, given her work was done for a charity – but five months later, the Us west coast executive editor refuses to respond to her invoice.

Now we're told exclusively that Us Weekly launched a flack attack just after our story ran this A.M.. Janice Min & Co. are furious with Meisels and are threatening the PR player, hounding her with threatening phone calls.

Meanwhile, the mainstream gossips are picking up on the story: Richard Johnson's Page Six put a call in to Meisels today, but we're told she denied our report to the Post column, fearing Us' wrath. (Though you still might want to expect an item from Page Six in tomorrow's paper.) Further, we hear the Daily News' Lloyd Grove is also trying to get in on the story, but Meisels is pleading with him not to run anything — again, at the cost of upsetting Jann Wenner's tabloid.

And that's not where the story even comes close to ending. With all the sour PR image debt Ken Baker has attracted, we're also hearing the masthead colonel is on the job hunt. With his contract up in the near future (, he's putting in calls to other pubs, hoping someone will accept his CV.

Earlier: Ken Baker's Unpaid Debts Continue: Us Weekly Exec Ed's Charity Shakedown
Related: All Ken Baker and Us Weekly coverage

(Photos, L to R: Ken Baker and Carmen Electra at the June 3 poker event; Jessica Meisels at her birthday party with Nicky and Paris Hilton)