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Sibs fight ‘incest’ rent slap

These siblings say they’re psychic, but they didn’t see this smear campaign coming.

Clara Sharma, 75, and her roommate-brother, Charles Steene, 71, claim their landlord is trying to roust them from their rent-stabilized Manhattan digs by spreading vicious rumors that they share more than just an apartment.

Sharma told The Post that management of the Morningside Heights building waged a whisper campaign against them, prompting tenants to believe she sleeps with her brother.

“It’s character assassination,” Sharma said. “I’m not that kind of person. I was never that hard up that I would tap on family.”

Sharma, who moved to her three-room, prewar pad at 600 W. 111th St. in 1964, said she believes the landlord, R.A. Cohen & Associates, even reported the siblings to Adult Protective Services and told neighbors she was mentally unstable.

A neighbor, Alan Messmann, called her “wacky” last year, and then referred to her as “an incestuous little witch,” Sharma alleged in a $50 million Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed last week against Messmann for slander.

Robert Cohen, who heads the management company, said the charges “are completely without merit.”

Messman was baffled when asked about his alleged offensive comment.

“I never said anything of that nature to this person. I have no idea what she’s talking about,” he insisted.