BY DEREMY UNDERHILL and SASS E. DICKENS

NEW YORK – Employees of fashion icon Anna Wintour are reporting she is “slightly less bitchy” after being visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.

Wintour, whose cruel treatment of staff inspired the movie The Devil Wears Prada, was visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in a dramatic bid to curb her imperious ways and save her mortal soul.

Throughout the course of the evening, the ghosts showed Wintour various scenes throughout her life, from her bitter childhood as the daughter of an alcoholic fishmonger in London, England to her future addiction to Vicodin milkshakes and resulting stint on the 2015 season of Celebrity Rehab.

According to the ghosts, helping the Vogue editor-in-chief was far from easy.

“Anna Wintour was a hard nut to crack, that’s for sure,” said the Ghost of Christmas Past. “During the tour of her youth, she kept calling her secretaries on a cell phone to berate them for not putting us ghosts on her schedule. She also mercilessly mocked the fashion sense of her childhood friends back in London, saying they dressed liked street urchins straight out of a polyester production of Oliver Twist. I’m not even sure what she meant by that, but it seemed pretty harsh.”

“Wintour was so mean she made the Ghost of Christmas Present cry, and I’ve never seen that happen before because he’s so f*cking jolly,” said the Ghost of Christmas Future. “In fact, she was totally unmoved by anything until I showed her a future in which Vogue sold her name and likeness to J.C. Penney’s after her death to hawk a discounted line of faux fur beaver coats. That’s when she became unhinged and promised to change her ways.”

Since the ghostly visits, Wintour’s employees at Vogue have noticed definite – if subtle – changes in their boss’s demeanor.

“Yesterday I was two minutes late bringing Ms. Wintour her steak lunch,” said an assistant of the fashionista. “Now if that had happened last week, she would have started screaming and thrown her Fabergé egg paperweight at me. Instead, she merely glared at me menacingly, shaking her head in an annoyed but silent manner. I could tell she was pissed off all right but for whatever reason she was choosing not to vocalize it, which is unusual for her.”

“For years, she’s had this habit of hurling her coat onto my desk as she entered the office so I’d put it on the coat rack,” said another long-time employee. “Today, she was about to do it again as she came in but stopped herself in mid hurl. Then she started muttering under her breath, walked over to my desk and handed it to me instead. I was pleasantly surprised by that mildly respectful gesture.”

As to how long Wintour will continue her slightly nicer behavior, the ghosts are circumspect.

“Usually we have pretty good success in getting people to reform their ways, such as with Ebeneezer Scrooge, Francisco Franco and Celine Dion,” said the Ghost of Christmas Past. “Sometimes though, we don’t totally achieve the desired results. You can’t win ‘em all.”