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Perelman scion: My mom and I were best friends

Revlon billionaire Ron Perelman’s 23-year-old daughter teared up talking about her late mom in New Jersey court Monday — but was less than reverent when it came to her celebrity-loving pop.

Samantha Perelman — who is suing her maternal uncle over a $600 million chunk of her grandfather’s will — described her relationship with her mother, former New York Post gossip queen Claudia Cohen, as “beyond closeness.”

“My mom [and I] were just the best of friends in the world, we were each other’s rocks,’’ Samantha said of her mother, who died of cancer in 2007.

“If she went out to dinner, I would call her to make sure she got to the restaurant OK. I can’t even speak about how close I was to my mother,” said Samantha, fighting back tears as she testified for the first time in the Bergen County courtroom.

Meanwhile, the young heiress, asked earlier if her dad had other children, chuckled while replying, “Many, yes, there are seven other children than me.’’

As for his wives, “Yes, [he had] many other wives’’ besides her mom, she added — “four other wives,’’ to be exact.

She hinted that her powerful dad, 70, wasn’t exactly warm and fuzzy, either.

Samantha said her mother wanted to make sure before her death that she was provided for — meaning a portion of her family’s “Hudson News’’ fortune would go to Samantha — in case the girl had a row with her father.

“She didn’t want to take the chance of something happening between my father and I and me not being provided for,’’ Samantha said.

Asked by defense lawyer Benjamin Clarke, “Did you understand that your father is a very dominant and controlling person, that she didn’t want you to be dominated by him?’’ Samantha replied: “I think [her concern was] if something happened between my father and I that I wouldn’t have to rely on him for money.’’

“When you say, ‘something between me and my father,’ do you mean a blow-up or a flare-up?’’ the lawyer persisted.

“Yeah, I mean, sure,’’ Samantha replied.

Still, Samantha said Perelman was a supportive father and ex who doted on his ailing former wife as she lay dying.

“My mother and father, although they did divorce, although he did have some different wives, they did stay really good friends,’’ Samantha said. “She would always come over for dinner, she would come on vacation with us.”

As her mother was fading, her dad “put together some of the best people in the field’’ to help Cohen, Samantha said. “My dad found some new cancer treatments in Frankfurt, Germany, so she would go there to get treatments.’’

Samantha is suing her mom’s brother, James Cohen, for allegedly coercing his elderly dad — her grandfather, Robert Cohen — to boot her from his will before he died in 2012.

Samantha testified that her grandfather’s eyes “would light up when he saw me. He would call me, ‘Cupcake.’ I was ‘Claudia’s little one.’

“I decided to file this lawsuit because I, I, I, I believed that my grandfather intention’s were thwarted, that he was vulnerable to undue influence, things that happened, transactions were inconsistence with his previous intent,’’ Samantha said, referring to the revised will that left her out.

“He was very vulnerable. I felt the need to protect his intentions and my mother.’’

Samantha said she understood from her mother that her uncle James was to get the family’s lucrative business, while she would inherit her mother’s cash share of the fortune.

James’ side has argued that the young woman “tormented her grandfather in the last years of his life,” trying to get him legally declared incapacitated.