CNN-anchor court fight looms

Amid the bitter back-and-forth about what CNN brass knew of Chris Cuomo’s efforts to aid his embattled brother, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the network is bracing for a legal war with the fired host over his contract, sources told The Post on Monday.

Chris Cuomo, 51, has hired lawyers and is preparing to file suit if CNN doesn’t honor the remainder of the four-year, $6-million-a-year deal he signed last year, sources familiar with the matter said.

But CNN has “no intention of paying Cuomo a penny,” one insider said. “If he gets a settlement, there would be uproar.”

Another source said, “CNN has a standard morality clause in their contract that says if the employee does anything of disrepute, they can be immediately fired.”

Cuomo was canned by CNN Saturday, four days after being suspended over information contained in a trove of documents released by state Attorney General Letitia James from her investigation into the sexual-harassment allegations that forced then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 63, to resign in August.

Lawyers from the white-shoe law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, hired by CNN to look into the Cuomo affair, told the network that the documents gave CNN legal grounds to fire Chris for contacting “sources” about planned news reports regarding his brother, as well as for trying to dig up dirt on at least one of Andrew’s accusers, the sources said.

The lawyers’ stance even came ahead of a planned internal CNN probe into an unspecified sexualmisconduct allegation against Chris Cuomo that the network received last week, and which dates to his time working for ABC News, the sources said.

Chris Cuomo’s spokesman has insisted, “These apparently anonymous allegations are not true.”

Both CNN and Chris Cuomo’s spokesman declined to comment.