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She’s one woman he couldn’t sweet talk.

Date-raping “journalist” Hugues Akassy tried to butter up his female judge at sentencing yesterday, but she wasn’t swayed, slapping him with a 20- year sentence.

“You may be a good journalist, I don’t know,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jill Konviser told Akassy, who was convicted last month in a string of harassment and sex attacks on four women in 2009 and 2010

“What I do know is that you are a rapist,” the judge sternly told the 43-year-old Akassy before sending him to prison for two decades.

The homeless masher was notorious for effecting an upscale look by wearing a white ascot to court — fashioned out of a Rikers Island bedsheet.

“There is no question, Mr. Akassy, that you present a danger to any community in which you walk free,” the judge said. “You are a sexual predator.”

Akassy was led off to prison unrepentant of his rape last year of a Russian tourist named Tatiana in Riverside Park. Nor did he make apologies for his harassment and stalking attacks on an Upper West Side art-gallery director, a law student and an art historian at the Met.

“But I am [sic] kind of a bachelor life. I am not proud of it,” he told the judge.

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