Now, five years after Rachel Uchitel lost fianc Andy O'Grady in the World Trade Center attacks, the striking blonde has married, divorced and fallen into the arms of the man who gave her her first childhood kiss - a powerful owner of one of the hottest clubs in Las Vegas, where Uchitel has carved out a dazzling new life.

Uchitel, 31, became the face of tragedy three days after the attacks, when The Post ran a cover photo of her crying inconsolably and clutching a "missing" poster of O'Grady, 32, a managing director for Sandler O'Neill who died when the second plane slammed into the south tower.

Once a planning editor at Bloomberg Television, Uchitel has now transformed herself into the VIP door hostess at the see-and-be- seen nightclub Tao, and is the girlfriend of one of its partners, nightclub heavy Jason Strauss, who is also co-owner of Marquee in Chelsea.