Emily Smith

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Matt Lauer’s wife is lawyering up

Annette RoqueSplash News

While disgraced “Today” anchor Matt Lauer battles to save his 20-year marriage to Dutch former model Annette Roque, she has been meeting with lawyers about squeezing a bigger settlement out of him if they proceed to a divorce.

A grim-faced Roque was seen Wednesday heading into the office of law firm Latham & Watkins in Manhattan.

Lauer was fired in November by NBC bosses for “inappropriate sexual behavior.”

And this week, former “Today” staffer Addie Zinone revealed her relationship with Lauer that took place in 2000, when she was a 24-year-old production assistant, saying the affair was consensual, but also an “abuse of power.”

Roque had previously filed for divorce from Lauer in 2006, citing “mental abuse, extreme mental and emotional distress, humiliation, torment, and anxiety,” but withdrew the filing weeks later after he offered her a post-nuptial agreement and millions more dollars, a source told Page Six.

The source explained, “The post-nup will likely specify how much Annette would get if they divorce, but she is expected to challenge it given Matt’s earnings since 2006, and given how he has humiliated her. There are also issues over all the property and land they own, both in the Hamptons and abroad.”

Lauer was being paid $25 million a year by NBC under a contract he signed in 2016.

The couple have three children, a 16-year-old son, a 14-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son.

Lauer released a statement soon after his firing, saying he was “truly sorry.” He partially denied some of the allegations, but admitted that “there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed.”

Reps for Lauer had no further comment.