Mages/NewsMayor Rudy Giuliani and then-wife Donna Hanover with children Andrew and Caroline in 1995.

Robinson/GettyCaroline Giuliani enjoys Fashion Week in 2004. Below, after her bust for shoplifting on Wednesday.

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You're Caroline Giuliani and you shoplifted 150 bucks worth of makeup from Sephora when you had $320 in your wallet? 

Why?

Your estranged father, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is worth up to $60 million, and your mother, Donna Hanover, got $6.7 million in their messy divorce. 

So money's not an issue. Come on, couldn't you at least have paid for the snag-free hair elastics. They cost only $3.50. 

Another question: Do they give blowouts at the 19th Precinct? Because you looked stunning when you left there with your distraught mother Wednesday, with perfect waves, cropped cranberry cardigan, designer shades perched LiLo-like atop your head. That was in stark contrast to your arrest ensemble: sneakers, pants, and a big ol' baggie NYU T-shirt. Your college, Harvard, must have appreciated that. 

Which begs another question: Did you really think you'd get away with it? 

You've done well in the Ivy League school's theater department, getting good reviews for plays you've directed, like "Fashion" and "Fat Men in Skirts." 

Surely, you're smart enough to know there are cameras and security people everywhere in Sephora. It's stocked with nothing but small but pricey items like the $89 Bliss moisturizer. 

"We deal with shoplifters every day," one staffer said. "We can always pick them out. They often have large but half-empty purses, or baggy clothes with a lot of pockets." 

Not since Winona Ryder lifted $5,500 in clothes from the Beverly Hills Saks has a shoplifting spree been so eyebrow-raising. 

But you had to know that, too, because your father was the law-and-order mayor.

After bringing down murder, rape and robbery rates with the help of top cops Bill Bratton and Jack Maple, he kept on going. 

He went after the squeegee men and the fare-beaters. He went after jaywalkers, in a city that sees jaywalking as a solution, not a problem. 

He told cops to ticket people who tossed chewing gum on the sidewalk. If you wanted to hurt the father who's barely spoken to you or your brother since he publicly dumped your mom for another woman a decade ago, breaking the law was the most embarrassing way to do it. 

You also knew you wouldn't go to jail, if caught. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney said there were 11,022 NYPD petty larceny arrests in the borough last year. Nearly half of the first-timers, like you, got a desk appearance ticket. 

Top New York child psychiatrist Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum says shoplifting among children of wealth and privilege "often has nothing to do with the value of the item," but is an attempt to hurt a parent. 

Dr. Gregory Jantz, the author of "Gotta Have It," said you could be hurt and angry at your father, "but [you] still want his attention. This is a way of getting back at him." 

For a guy who wanted New Yorkers to pay big bucks for throwing their gum in the street, it sure is.

But then again, you knew that.

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