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MAHER: MY EX IS A LYING GOLD DIGGER

Bill Maher has fired back at the busty beauty who’s suing him for $9 million in palimony, proclaiming he’s a “confirmed bachelor” who never promised to take care of her.

In a stinging countersuit against Nancy “Coco” Johnson, the loud-mouthed HBO talk host claims the onetime nude centerfold model is a would-be extortionist out to shake him down for big bucks.

Maher, 48, describes himself as a “confirmed bachelor, and a very public one at that,” in legal papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by thesmokinggun.com

He claims Johnson launched a vicious campaign to embarrass and humiliate him after their 10-month relationship ended.

Maher says Johnson fabricated claims that he physically and verbally abused her with racial slurs – and he denies her allegations that he promised to support her and buy her a Beverly Hills home.

Maher alleges he’s the “latest victim” of Johnson, whose prior “unscrupulous schemes,” he says, include a 1997 shakedown of a Miami socialite she falsely accused of rape and kidnapping.