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Did Jay Bromley’s rape accuser try to extort Taye Diggs?

NYPD cops investigating an alleged rape by Giants defensive tackle Jay Bromley are probing whether his accuser extorted actor Taye Diggs last year over a sex tape, The Post has learned.

Bromley, 23, claims that the woman tried to shake him down for money after their hookup-turned-bad at a Midtown hotel early Saturday, sources said.

She also reportedly targeted Diggs — of Broadway, film and TV fame — by threatening to leak videotape of him, her and another woman, with law-enforcement sources citing what they called a threatening Instagram post that she made after the romp.

And the NYPD is aware of a third alleged shakedown scheme by the woman that targeted an unidentified “man of some note,” sources said.

Law-enforcement officials and neighbors identified Bromley’s accuser as a 26-year-old woman who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The Post is withholding her name.

Last year, the woman uploaded a brief video clip to Instagram showing her and Diggs, 45, in what appears to be a swanky hotel room.

Diggs — who shot to stardom in the 1998 movie “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,’’ is starring in TV’s “Murder in the First’’ and was in the original Broadway cast of “Rent’’ — is seen lying fully clothed on a large bed while the woman shakily pans the camera around the room before pointing it at herself and licking her lips.

In an accompanying, profanity-laced screed addressed to Diggs, she threatened to release “all 7 parts of this video, bitch.”

“I will air out this entire video piece by piece of u licking both me and my bitch p—y and ur f–k­ing number if u don’t get ya s–t right,” she wrote.

“Act dumb if u want to. I have footage of u on all kinda drugs, and sucking on my c–t hoe.”

Less than a week after the Diggs video surfaced, Diary of a Hollywood Street King reported that the actor had paid Bromley’s accuser “a large undisclosed sum of money” to cover up the scandal.

The accuser acknowledged to The Post that she posted the video featuring Diggs, saying: “Yes, I had an altercation with an actor in the past. I went to social media. A lot of girls go to social media and blast off when they are upset.”

But she insisted, “I never extorted that man,” and, “That man never gave me a dime.”

Bromley’s accuser introduced herself to the football player on Instagram, sources have said.

She has told cops that he raped her at the Hyatt Herald Square hotel, then hit her with his car outside.

She said that Bromley — who has not been charged — attacked her after she got sick while performing a sex act on him.

“I’ll be honest with you, I threw up. I agreed to s–k him off, and I threw up. I was drunk, and that’s when he blew up,” she told The Post.

But she refused to discuss the alleged rape in any detail, saying, “I’m not getting into all that.’’

As for allegedly being hit by Bromley’s car, she said, “My knee and back are injured,” and added that she was “really traumatized” by the incident.

Bromley refused to comment outside his home in Secaucus, NJ, on Sunday.

“We have reviewed the allegations against Mr. Bromley and believe no crime has been committed,” said Bromley’s lawyer, Alex Spiro of Brafman & Associates.

Diggs could not be reached by phone or at his Tribeca apartment, and his agent declined to comment, referring questions to a publicist who did not return phone and e-mail messages.

Additional reporting by Tina Moore and Sophia Rosenbaum