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A judge has ruled Janice Dickinson‘s defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby can continue, according to court papers.

The ​former ​supermodel​, 62,​ filed suit against the fallen funnyman and his attorney, Marty Singer, after Cosby smeared her as a liar for accusing him of rape.

The case was initially dismissed, but revived on appeal Tuesday.

Dickinson​, a Brooklyn native,​ sued “America’s Dad” after he and Singer threatened various media outlets with litigation should the companies report her assertions she’d been raped by Cosby.

“When someone is publicly accused of rape, is asked for a response, and sends back a letter from counsel saying, ‘the alleged rape never happened,’ it is reasonable for the recipient of the letter to infer that the accused is, in fact, denying the rape,” the panel wrote in their ruling.

“We have just learned that we won our appeal on behalf of our client Janice Dickinson against Bill Cosby,” her attorney, Lisa Bloom, wrote on Twitter. ” Kudos to my Bloom Firm attorneys Jivaka Candappa and Avi Goldstein who worked on this defamation case with me for nearly 3 years.”

Cosby, who remains roiled in civil litigation over sex assault and rape claims, is slotted to stand retrial next April for molesting a Temple University employee in 2004.