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The New York Times on Monday reprimanded an unidentified reporter who had called Melania Trump “a hooker” at a New York Fashion Week event.

“At a party last night, a Times reporter who does not cover Washington or politics, referred to an unfounded rumor regarding Melania Trump,” a Times rep said in a statement to Politico.

“The comment was not intended to be public, but it was nonetheless completely inappropriate and should not have occurred. Editors have talked to the reporter in question about the lapse.”

Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski, who was seated next to the reporter during the event on Sunday, had spilled the beans on Twitter.

“Sat next to a journalist from the NYT last night who told me ‘Melania is a hooker,’” Ratajkowski tweeted Monday morning.

The 25-year-old stunner, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, decried what she called the “slut-shaming” of the first lady, a former model herself.

“Whatever your politics it’s crucial to call this out for what it is: slut shaming. I don’t care about her nudes or sexual history and no one should,” she wrote.

Melania Trump posed nude in photos that were later published by The Post, and she and President Trump have furiously denied a report — later retracted — that she worked as an escort early in her US modeling career.

The first lady has filed a lawsuit against the UK’s Daily Mail over an article that included the rumor that she had once been a “high-end escort.”

Ratajkowski, star of “Gone Girl,” backed Bernie Sanders in the presidential race.