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Bill Cosby planning motivational speaking tour

Bill Cosby is headed back out on tour — but instead of comedy, he’ll be focusing on another one of his other legendary talents: dodging sex-assault claims.

The fallen funnyman — who narrowly avoided conviction in a Pennsylvania sex case last week with a mistrial — plans to celebrate his legal good fortune by touring the nation giving lectures to young people and “married men” about the dangers of sex-crime allegations, his spokesman said.

“Mr. Cosby wants to get back to work,” Cosby rep Andrew Wyatt said Thursday on the Birmingham, Ala., morning show “Good Day Alabama.”

“We’re now planning town halls, and we’re going to be coming to this city [Birmingham] sometime in July . . . to talk to young people because this is bigger than Bill Cosby.”

Wyatt said that the comedian, once known as “America’s Dad,” will issue a dire warning to his audience about getting snared by sex-crime claims.

“This issue can affect any young person, especially young athletes of today, and they need to know what they’re facing when they’re hanging out and partying, when they’re doing certain things that they shouldn’t be doing. And it also affects married men,” Wyatt added with a laugh. Cosby’s tour will kick off next month with visits in cities including Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, Wyatt said.

Prosecutors in Norristown, Pa., have vowed to retry Cosby, 79.

The “Fat Albert” creator has become a nationwide pariah after 60 women accused him of drugging and raping them in encounters that date back decades.

Nevertheless, his rep told The Post on Thursday, the star has been showered with support since a jury deadlocked on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted former Temple University basketball manager Andrea Constand in 2004.

Wyatt said he and Ebonee Benson, who represents Cosby’s wife, Camille, received “over 100 calls from civic organizations and churches once they saw the facts of the case, once they heard the truth and saw the inconsistences.”

“They thought Mr. Cosby would be a great voice to talk to young men and women about the judicial system . . . to educate them on the system and the do’s and don’t’s,” Wyatt added.

Cosby openly in a 2005-06 deposition that he would give Quaaludes, a powerful sedative, to women with whom he wanted to have sex. But Wyatt blasted the sex claims against Cosby as bogus.

“No evidence and no proof,” Wyatt said.