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Cheating Bozo the Clown was BS artist

Larry Harmon created the Bozo the Clown character to give the world “joy, laughter and human bonding” through his trademark chuckle, red mop and bulbous nose — but his ex-wife, Sandra Harmon, an author on relationship counseling, says he made her life hell.

Harmon penned his recently released memoir, “The Man Behind the Nose: Larry Bozo Harmon,” before his death in 2008 to ensure that his legacy lived on through stupendous tales he shares in the book. But Sandra’s own upcoming memoir, “Sleeping with Bozo and Other Clowns,” will depict him as a pathological liar and cheater.

“He lied about everything,” Sandra told us. “If he ate two steaks, he said, ‘I ate seven.’ ”

Sandra was Larry’s second of four wives and his mistress during his first marriage. Larry was sex crazed, she says. “He would want to have sex every night and twice on the weekend,” she said. “He said I owed it to him.” Their marriage lasted less than three years when Sandra caught him sleeping with his secretary.

Sandra says the bizarre tales in his book are lies but impossible to disprove because the people involved are dead.

Larry claimed President John F. Kennedy called to name him an international ambassador for safety. Sandra says, “He never spoke one word to Kennedy. I know this because [she and Larry] were together when he was assassinated.”

Larry also related a bizarre tale about a foray into the wilds of New Guinea to prove that he could survive with cannibals through joy and laughter. But “no one was going to kill him,” Sandra said, based on the photo he sent her of himself posing with the smiling natives.

“Whatever he did, he would take it and jumble it up. He was relentless.”

And smart. He had 300 underlings playing Bozo at the height of his clowning career.