Madonna Badger attends wake for 3 girls

Mariela Lombard/for New York Daily News

Madonna Badger leaves Frank E. Campbell Funeral home on Madison Ave. Wednesday morning in Manhattan.

The pain was etched across Madonna Badgers face as she bid farewell Wednesday to her three little girls and her parents all victims of a tragic Christmas Day inferno.

Dressed in black and wearing a somber-colored scarf to ward off the cold, Badger leaned on the arms of two funeral home worker for support as she walked silently, and with downcast eyes, into the Upper East Side funeral home.

Badger was joined there by her estranged husband, Matthew, and a small group of relatives and close friends.

Together, they mourned 9-year-old Lily Badger, her 7-year-old twin sisters, Grace and Sarah, and their grandparents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

Several police officers were deployed outside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home to ensure that the wake remained private.

A funeral service for the victims open to the public will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

Badger, a high-profile advertising executive and fashion consultant who created the iconic Mark Wahlberg underwear ads fo! r Calvin Klein, had recently moved her girls out of Manhattan to a $1.7 million waterfront mansion in Stamford, Conn.

The family was gearing up for Christmas and Badgers boyfriend, Michael Borcina, had cleared the embers out of a fireplace because the girls feared Santa Claus would be burned coming down the chimney, sources said.

Unaware that some of the embers were still burning, Borcina left them in a bag, which ignited the fast-moving fire, sources said.

Lomer Johnson, 71, who had spent Christmas Eve working as a Santa Claus at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, died trying to carry one of his granddaughters to safety.

Badger and Borcina also tried to save the kids, but they couldnt make it past the flames.

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