#Cuomo refused to hire woman because she wasn’t ‘pretty enough’

One of Gov. Cuomo’s accusers on Monday said he once refused to hire a woman because she wasn’t “pretty enough” — and thought then-President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal involving intern Monica Lewinsky was “funny.”

Karen Hinton, who worked as a Cuomo press aide when he was Clinton’s housing secretary, told The Post that during that time he conducted a job interview with a woman who had “worked on Capitol Hill for years.”

“I knew her, she had a very good understanding of Capitol Hill politics and policy,” Hinton said.

“She came in for an interview and I sat in since I had recommended her, and he said to me after, ‘No, I don’t think so,’” she said.

Hinton added: “I asked, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘She’s not pretty enough. I don’t like the way she looks.’”

Hinton — who has accused Cuomo of having been physically “aroused” when he hugged her “too tightly” and for “too long” in a Los Angeles hotel room in December 2000 — also said he was amused by the scandal that led to Clinton’s 1998 impeachment.

“I remember him laughing about the Monica Lewinsky situation, not because he didn’t believe her — he did — but because he thought it was funny,” she said. “There were jokes made about it because of the cigars.”

The alleged hotel room incident involving the governor and Hinton, who’s married to former Cuomo administration official Howard Glaser, is briefly mentioned twice in Attorney General Letitia James’ sexual harassment report against him.

But Hinton isn’t included among the 11 complainants whose allegations were addressed in detail because the report only focused on Cuomo’s actions while governor. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio publicly accused Cuomo of demanding that he fire Hinton when she was Hizzoner’s press secretary and described the three-term Democrat as a “Shakespearean” villain.

Cuomo’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment.