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Samantha Perelman loses battle over grandfather’s millions

She’ll just have to settle for the $67 million her mom already left her.

Samantha Perelman — the 24-year-old daughter of billionaire investment mogul Ronald Perelman and late millionaire Page Six columnist Claudia Cohen — on Wednesday lost her New Jersey court battle for tens of millions more from her grandfather’s $600 million Hudson News fortune.

The poor little rich girl had been cut out of the will of Parkinson’s-afflicted granddad Robert Cohen back in 2008, with Claudia’s brother, James, getting the lion’s share of the newspaper and magazine retail empire fortune.

On Wednesday, a judge in Hackensack put an end — for now — to years of court battles by siding with James, ruling he had not exerted undue influence over the frail Robert Cohen, as Samantha had contended.

Samantha loses a bequest of $25 million her granddad had originally made, a $5 million trust fund, a corporate jet, her grandfather’s home in Englewood, NJ, and a share in a Palm Beach mansion.

James Cohen had presented the judge with moving testimony about how his ailing father blinked his eyes in anger and struggled to clench his contorted fists at the memory of Ronald Perelman prying into the finances of his fortune, even as he lay nearly physically incapacitated.

Samantha was cut out of the will due to that anger, James Cohen had argued.

“We are disappointed with the decision, and believe it is not consistent with the intention and wishes of Robert Cohen with respect to his daughter Claudia and his granddaughter Samantha,” Perelman family spokeswoman Christine Taylor said in a statement.

The silver lining for Samantha? The judge granted that she did have reasonable cause to challenge the will, and ordered Jimmy to pay her legal fees out of the estate.

The ugly battle may not be over, though. “We are evaluating our legal options,” the Perelman spokeswoman said.

In addition to the $67 million she received outright from mom Claudia — who passed away from cancer at age 56 in 2007 — Samantha still has the eventual prospect of a sizable slice of her dad’s estimated $14 billion fortune.