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New York magazine had the Harvey Weinstein story — or nearly had it — a year ago but didn’t run anything after the movie mogul and his team of lawyers and p.r. consultants intervened.

Reporter Ben Wallace spent months interviewing dozens of people in Weinstein’s world in the hope of exposing Weinstein’s history of sexual aggression toward young women.

“New York magazine had the story a year ago, and Harvey had it killed,” one source told me.

“Harvey was sweating bullets. He sat down with Editor-in-Chief Adam Moss, and they were still going ahead. Then, it suddenly went away. The reporter must be kicking himself now.”

Wallace declined to speak to me.

“The suggestion that we killed this story due to pressure from our business side or from Harvey Weinstein is completely false,” a magazine spokeswoman said.

“The fact is that we couldn’t get the story to the point where we had sufficient confirmation and sourcing to publish.”

The New York Times reported that Weinstein had secretly paid off at least eight women — including Rose McGowan — to remain silent after allegations of sexual harassment.

“He was voracious in his appetites — for movies, for food and for women,” a former employee told me. “He had no limits and no one to stop him.”