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Bill Clinton raked in $100M in speeches over last decade

The Clintons dead broke? More like dead wrong.

Bill Clinton raked in an eye-popping $104.9 million for giving 542 speeches between January 2001 and January 2013, The Washington Post reported Friday.

In just one week in May 2012, he pocketed a $1.4 million paycheck after speaking to businessmen and politicos in Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Spain, according to federal financial disclosures analyzed by the paper.

A little more than half Clinton’s speaking gigs were in the US, but the majority of his income — $56.3 million — came from speeches in China, Japan and the UK.

The financial industry was the biggest spender, paying the former president $19.6 million for his 102 appearances in front of Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs, which hired him eight times for $1.35 million.

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci raved about Clinton’s appearance, which cost the investment firm $175,000 in Las Vegas in 2010.

“He’s a stud,” said Scaramucci. “There was nobody at the Bellagio (casino) cabana sunning himself when President Clinton was in the ballroom speaking.”

HiIlary Clinton speaks before a book signing at Barnes and Noble in New York on June 10.AP

Hillary Clinton claimed earlier this month that the first couple were “dead broke” and owing legal debts when Bill left the White House in 2001 — despite their $400,000 income their last year at the White House and Bill’s $8 million book advance.

The potential 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful — who netted a multimillion-dollar deal for her newest book, “Hard Choices” — backpedaled on her comments a day later, saying she and Bill were “obviously blessed.”

“We worked hard for everything we got in our lives … So for me, it’s just a reality what we faced when he got out of the White House, it meant that we just had to keep working really hard,” she said.

The former secretary of state has also cashed in big on speeches.

Business executives told the Washington Post that she charges $200,000 and up for speaking engagements and is in even higher demand than her husband.

“President Clinton’s always interesting, but there’s a lot more demand right now for her because she just came out of government and people want to hear about that, whether it’s Iran or Russia or the big challenges she’s faced, and about the dysfunction in Washington,” said an anonymous executive at Goldman Sachs, which has hired Hillary in the past.

The Clintons do give free speeches and sometimes donate their speaking fees to charities.

Hillary intends to donate a $225,000 paycheck for speaking at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, her office said.