Took perv Cos out of book – witness

CELEBRITY NEW York book editor Judith Regan took the stand at Bill Cosby’s retrial Wednesday and said it’s no work of fiction Janice Dickinson tried to include her Bill Cosby rape claim in her 2002 memoir.

Regan told the jury the supermodel was adamant she was drugged and raped by the comedian in 1982, but HarperCollins simply wouldn’t let Dickinson make the claim in her autobiography, “No Lifeguard on Duty.”

“The truth in this case, with this particular incident, was something that we required her to remove from the book,” Regan testified.

Regan, 64, said the claim was “modified to deal with this issue without any legal problems.”

If published in 2002, Dickinson’s rape claim would have been the first public allegation of its kind against the then-beloved celebrity known as “America’s Dad.”

Three years later, Andrea Constand would go to police with her own claim Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his suburban Pennsylvania mansion in 2004.