The star Hunter College psychology professor forced out in a sex and drug scandal not only took advantage of students and colleagues, he hired his husband for $600,000-plus worth of taxpayer-funded photo gigs.

Jeffrey Parsons quit last month after a probe substantiated complaints by employees at his research center — which raked in federal grant money and focused on topics like HIV prevention and drug use.

Parsons, the youngest-ever distinguished professor at Hunter, was the fifth highest paid employee at the City University of New York in 2017, collecting $363,283.

His photographer husband, Chris Hietikko, though not a CUNY employee, also collected big bucks in grant dollars working for Parsons’ Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training, known as CHEST.

Hietikko’s Mindful Designs company was paid an average $82,000 a year — or a total of $656,000 — from 2011 to 2018, according to a CUNY spokesman who said the work was cleared by a conflict of interest panel.

He is no longer working for CUNY.

Also a graphic designer and actor, according to his web site, Hietikko designed recruitment ads for CHEST studies and would photograph or direct shoots.

But he collected money from CHEST far longer than just eight years. A 2013 federal grant application said he worked “with the center for more than 12 years,” providing “a variety of recruitment and project materials.”

And a 2007 application for a study on drug use and HIV said that Hietikko, as a consultant, would be paid $2,500 for providing recruitment cards, noting “professional and exciting images are necessary.”

Some of those images seen by The Post showed naked men posed in threesomes.

The CHEST work was lucrative for the couple. Parsons 2017 financial disclosure form noted he and Hietikko had between $1 million and $1.25 million in a brokerage account, records show.

The gravy train came to a stop after an annual party known as CHEST fest was held in May 2018 at the historic Stonewall Inn.

Parsons planned contests and asked employees to vote in categories including “Most Likely To Be In The Bathroom Hooking Up” or “Most Likely To Cut A Bitch,” according to an email to staffers.

He encouraged party guests to drink and ended the annual soiree by choosing a worker he crowned “the biggest mess.”

Employees complained to the college and the CUNY Research Foundation, a non-profit that distributes grant money.

The college and foundation hired an outside investigator and a year-long the probe found Parsons violated CUNY drug and alcohol policies.

Parsons allegedly “engaged in the use, and in the distribution, of illegal drugs (cocaine) at CHEST events … and/or with CHEST employees and CUNY faculty and students associated with CHEST,” according to a May 2019 “final outcome letter” seen by The Post.

Thomas Borkowski, the deputy director of CHEST, and Carlos Ponton, another manager, were also implicated in the scandal, and no longer work there, according to CUNY. Neither returned requests for comment. Hietikko and Parson did not return calls for comment.

“Especially in this cultural era of the metoo movement, you hear a lot about men in power victimizing women,” a CHEST employee told The Post. “This is a case of a gay man victimizing women, straight men, gay men — the whole gamut of different identities.”