Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said he was kept off a panel of constitutional scholars testifying at a House impeachment hearing last week partly because of an accusation that he sexually assaulted a victim of sex trafficker Jefferey Epstein.

“They wanted me to be there. They called and asked me if I would be willing to testify, and I said I would. And then as a result of these false accusations against me regarding the Jeffrey Epstein matter, accusations which I have disproved,” Dershowitz told host John Catsimatidis on his AM 970 radio show on Sunday.

“Just because there is an accusation out there, the decision was made not to use me. Also, because the Republicans are only given one witness. If they had been given two witnesses, probably I would’ve been used along with Turley,” he said, referring to George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley who testified on behalf of the Republicans.

But Dershowitz said he would have disagreed with parts of Turley’s testimony at last Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.

“He said – even though he did a very good job defending the president’s rights – that a president could be impeached for gross abuse of office. That’s just not in the Constitution. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s only four criteria for impeachment: treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Abuse of office is not one of them,” Dershowitz said.

Last month, Dershowitz sued Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed she had sex with the noted attorney.

The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court claims Dershowitz never met Giuffre and never had sex with her.

Giuffre has sued Dershowitz for defamation, claiming he called her a liar.