Russell Crowe Dumps Croc Hunter's Widow!

RUSSELL Crowe insists he’s not romancing Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s widow — but sources say sparks between the pair fizzled out so the Gladiator hunk sent her packing!

Still, Crowe told a radio station Down Under, “I do love Terri [Irwin] and I love her kids” and will stay in their lives — as a family friend — since “Terri is one of the greatest women I’ve ever met in my life.”

But the 53-year-old Oscar winner, now starring in The Mummy, and Terri, 52, started a secret affair last summer, sources say.

“They honestly were a great match,” an insider tells GLOBE.