There was something so catchy about that New York Daily News item Monday, sourced to an anonymous tipster, claiming Ivanka Trump sends an assistant weekly to touch up the nail polish on the wax figure made in her likeness at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in Times Square. The vanity! And it was helped along by a weird non-denial denial from a Tussaud's rep who confirmed that, yes, Ivanka does send over polish.

Which is all incredibly shocking to Ivanka. "It's inaccurate to think that the thought would ever cross my mind to have the fingers or the toenails of a wax figure painted regularly or otherwise," she tells Radar—especially since Madame Tussaud's in Times Square doesn't even have an Ivanka figure. (A museum rep confirmed as much.) "It's like the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard."

But why would the increasingly famous daughter of a world famous man-turned-brand deign to acknowledge such a smear? For one, she says, she'd never send her assistant of three years on such a petty mission. For two, she wasn't too keen on how the gossip item might have played with her business partners. For three, she says neither she nor her rep got a call for comment (Ivanka, it seems, will not suffer lapses in journalistic ethics—hot). Mostly, though, "It makes me look like a frivolous person with way too much time on my hands," Trump says.

Asked whether the whole thing could have been the product of an overheard joke at a press event, Trump is doubtful. Her mother, Ivana, does have a wax figure at the museum but doesn't, to Ivanka's knowledge, actively maintain it. As for her own wax likeness, she says, the Daily News item was the first she'd ever heard of the idea.

"It's not even on my radar."

UPDATE: Madame Tussaud's releases the following statement:
Madame Tussauds New York would like to set the record straight. On Friday, the Daily News called and was inadvertently given incorrect information by a Tussauds employee. Unfortunately, the employee thought the Daily News was asking about a different figure. Madame Tussaud's New York does not in fact have a figure of Ivanka Trump ... yet. We apologize for the confusion. Madame Tussaud's loves the Trumps and is very proud of its figures of Donald and Ivana Trump, as well as its more than 200 lifelike figures." Press stunt anyone?