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Rubenstein denied entry to sex club after alleged rape

Disgraced lawyer Sanford Rubenstein is so toxic after being accused of rape that he can no longer get into the sex clubs he loves so much.

The aging, pint-sized lothario — who is accused of raping a top aide to his onetime buddy, the Rev. Al Sharpton — showed up at one of his favorite underground dens in Manhattan over the weekend but got turned away at the door, a source told The Post.

Rubenstein, 70, went to swingers club Checkmate on East 56th Street on Saturday night, but the manager told him there had been too much recent press about his sexual hijinks at local hot spots and he didn’t want that kind of exposure for his establishment, the source said.

Rubenstein — whom a witness has described as “hung like a cashew’’ — left without incident, taking his female friend with him.

Meanwhile, the lawyers for his rape accuser fired off a letter Tuesday to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance demanding that Rubenstein be arrested.

“Her complaint along with her injuries provide a factual and legal basis sufficient for the arrest of Sanford,” the letter said.

Rubenstein’s camp has said the sex was consensual. The woman says she was attacked while in a stupor and possibly drugged.

“The denial of the attacker, along with his public strategy for a defense, is never a sufficient reason to not protect the rights of the victim,” the woman’s lawyers insisted.

Vance’s office declined to comment.