Lefante ankles Fox for stork

Exec to deliver in June

By CYNTHIA LITTLETON

Melissa Lefante has resigned her post as veepee of media and corporate relations for Fox's Twentieth TV syndie arm.

Lefante and her husband, Frank Spotnitz, prexy of Chris Carter's Ten Thirteen Prods., are expecting their first child in June.

Lefante has spent the past five years with Twentieth, overseeing publicity campaigns for such off-network and firstrun series as "The X-Files," "NYPD Blue," "The Simpsons," "Cops" and "Forgive or Forget." There's no word yet from the distrib on her successor.