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‘No sex’ gal, hubby: Bullies’ drug lies brought us down

A QUEENS assemblywoman and her husband say his career as a court officer went up in smoke after his colleagues bullied him over his wife’s political office and made up allegations against the two of them — including that they were potheads.

Assemblywoman Michele Titus, 47, and her husband, Eric DeBerry, 49, made the charges on Nov. 22 in an updated lawsuit that accuses the state Unified Court System of wrongfully firing him in 2014.

The lawsuit says that since DeBerry’s dismissal, the couple’s credit rating has been “shot” and their marriage has faltered.

The Daily News previously reported that an initial summons in the lawsuit said that since DeBerry lost his job, he and Titus stopped having sex.

The couple — who met at a Sweet 16 party in 1985 — has sought counseling from their pastors, parents and “those they believed they could trust,” the suit says.

“Titus and DeBerry did their endeavor best to keep their family together but there wasn’t much to be happy about,” the revised lawsuit says.

Titus (photo) says that her husband’s job and their crumbling home life has made her “extremely concerned about damage to her reputation as a public official.”

The lawsuit says, “The two have and still are united in their efforts to preserve the fairytale their marriage to each other promised.”

DeBerry was a court officer for 16 years, but he said his problems started when he was transferred to the Queens Criminal Court in 2003.

The lawsuit says he was constantly bullied because his coworkers believed he used his wife’s seat toboost his career. He was shuffled to different locations in the courthouse — and his supervisors always sided with his colleagues in disputes, according to the suit. In one instance, when DeBerry griped to a sergeant about an officer badmouthing him, the officer in question responded by referring to him and Titus as as “you and your pot-smoking wife.” DeBerry said the officer wasn’t disciplined, but the sergeant wrote him up and sent him to the inspector general’s office for a drug test. The inspector general’s “investigation was unfruitful,” the suit says. In another instance, DeBerry said he was wrongfully accused of trying to have his wife get court officers pay raises.

But records show DeBerry had a history of being written up for bad behavior.

In 2013, the chief administrative judge for the city placed DeBerry on probation for two years after an administrative hearing officer found him guilty of telling a man who was helping his blind friend get to court to “shut the f*** up” and mind his own business.

In August 2014, he was terminated from his job after he got into another altercation with a coworker while on probation.

Departmental memos also say he had a short fuse.

He was accused of arguing with his supervisors and using Titus’ position to impress judges or intimidate co-workers, according to a 2005 memo.

A lawyer for DeBerry and Titus did not respond to a request for comment.

A spokesman for the Unified Court System declined to comment.