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November 13, 2007 -- MOVIE mogul Harvey Weinstein had to defend a lady's honor Saturday night when a tipsy deejay landed in the lap of a woman at his table at the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar and groped her, sources said.

Other witnesses claimed they saw the deejay, Marcos Udagawa, punch Weinstein in the face and knock him down - but Weinstein denied to Page Six that any fists flew and downplayed the incident.

"He was a little drunk," Weinstein told us. "He fell or tripped on my friend Pascale, the girlfriend of Nicholas Rachline, who was at my table.

"He touched her inappropriately, and I said, 'Is he a friend of yours?' She said, 'I've never seen him before in my life.' He did it again. I told him to stop. Three times I asked him not to, and then I physically removed him. It was over in a minute."

But one witness insisted that Udagawa and Weinstein had a heated argument, that the deejay punched Weinstein, "knocking him down," and that "someone from Harvey's table then tackled him before [the deejay] was thrown out."

Nur Khan, the Rose Bar's creative director, said, "Lots of things are getting blown way out of proportion. It was crowded, the deejay fell over a table, and Harvey and another guy pulled him off. That was it. They spoke on the phone the next day."

Shocked Hollywood A-Listers who were also in the bar at the time of the incident included Heath Ledger, Zach Braff, Brandon Davis, Uma Thurman, Gemma Ward, Jamie Burke, May Anderson, Ellen Pompeo and Tony Shafrazi.

When we contacted Udagawa - a k a "Gringo Scarr" - before we could ask about the fight, he responded by saying, "No comment." But he sent Weinstein an e-mail that read: "My sincerest apologies if there was any problems between the two of us. It was extremely uncharacteristic of me if there was. Best wishes."

Weinstein, who just got engaged to Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, is a big, burly man who isn't afraid to get physical. The Miramax founder put former New York Observer reporter Andrew Goldman in a headlock in 2000.