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Ben Stein wrote in a bizarre magazine column last month that he’s still like a hormone-crazed teen who gets “mad crushes” on every beautiful woman he meets.

But one woman targeted by the supposedly harmless Stein told Page Six on Monday that the 69-year-old married grandfather is nothing but a manipulative leech who gave her money — and then begged to “touch” her even though she’s pregnant.

Tanya Ma, a 24-year-old pregnant performance artist, said she contacted Page Six to tell her story because she doesn’t “want him to continue to do this to women.”

“It’s much more than sexting, cyber-escorting or being a sugar daddy — it’s unhealthy and toxic behavior that needs to be exposed,” insisted Ma, who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Stein — best known for portraying the droll high-school teacher who drones “Bueller? … Bueller?” in 1986’s “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and as the host to sidekick Jimmy Kimmel in the TV show “Win Ben Stein’s Money” — referred to Ma as “Lucia” and a former “call girl” in his June column for The American Spectator.

The Yale-educated former Nixon speechwriter wrote that he was immediately smitten after first setting eyes on her at the San Francisco airport in the spring.

She was “a stunningly beautiful, absolute knockout young Eurasian woman,” Stein wrote, and “we have been in touch almost every day since.”

Tanya, who admits she briefly worked as an escort in Chicago, said that when she first met Stein, she thought he was interested in her as a fledgling author.

“He said he’d read my blog, and I gave him my contact information,” she said. “We texted for about four months, then he asked me to send him pictures. He said he was very captivated and he just wanted to remember me. After a while, he started asking for more racy photos.”

Then, earlier this month, “He wanted to place me in a hotel near where he lives” in LA, Ma said.

But “the day before I was supposed to meet him, he texted me” about wanting to touch and kiss, she said.

Ma said the ex-Comedy Central star wrote, “When you get here i want to hug and kiss you. I understand you don’t want to f–k me. But i want to touch you and kiss you.”

“I knew he had developed a crush on me, but it just started to get weird,” said a grossed-out Ma, who is 18 weeks pregnant by a former beau.

Growing “horribly uncomfortable” with his antics, Ma said, she texted back: “Ben, you may hug me and feel my baby bump, but anything more is too much for me. I’m not your girlfriend. Can’t we simply enjoy a conversation and meal? I’m pregnant.”

Stein responded, “Your note hurts my feelings. Insulting. Shows zero appreciation.”

“He said his wife knew about everything,” Ma added.

But Stein denied to The Post on Monday that he ever did anything untoward.

“She is a person I have only met for less than five minutes at an airport. I have never touched her, I have never had any sexual contact with her. I should get a medal for helping this woman,” Stein said of Ma.

“This is a person who appealed to me for money. She said she would send me some examples of her performance art. Some of those examples were racy, and some were not.

“I just don’t get what I have done wrong. She is mad at me because she wanted more money.”

Adding that the whole thing was like “a ‘Monty Python’ episode,” Stein said he simply urged Ma to write a book about her troubled childhood and told her he would help get it published.

“Here’s the real story: Ben Stein has never had any criminal charge or any ethical blemish in his life, she tells him a sob story, he helps her out to the amount of thousands, she said she’s going to have a baby and the father of the baby wasn’t going to help her out,” he said.

“I didn’t expect anything from her. Hugging and kissing doesn’t mean I wanted to f–k her. I said that explicitly in my text,” Stein said. “When is it wrong to hug people?”