Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent nearly 13 hours in Manhattan Saturday as he was slated to face probers investigating sexual harassment claims by his female aides.

Cuomo could be seen boarding a State Police chopper at the West 30th Street Heliport around 7:50 p.m. He was wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase and accompanied by Stephanie Benton, his secretary, who wore shorts and a suit jacket and held a paper shopping bag.

About a half hour earlier, several people carrying boxes were spotted leaving the governor’s Manhattan office on Third Avenue.

Cuomo was expected to be grilled by outside lawyers, brought on by state Attorney General Tish James, who have already interviewed his accusers and members of his inner circle.

James hired former Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim and Anne Clark, a leading employment lawyer, to lead the probe.

The governor reportedly prepped with his own lawyer this week for the questioning. He is being represented by Rita Glavin, a former US Department of Justice official.

Saturday’s meeting was cloaked in secrecy. He put out no official schedule. The New York Times reported the grilling would take place in Albany where reporters gathered outside the Executive Mansion.

But Cuomo departed the capital shortly after dawn. Flight records show the state chopper took off from Albany at 6:01 a.m. and landed at the heliport at 7:13 a.m. Both the AG and the governor have offices in Manhattan.

Cuomo arrived back in his convoy at the Executive Mansion at 9:20 p.m. Saturday.

Cuomo was expected to answer questions under oath, the Albany Times Union reported.

Four of Cuomo’s accusers were issued subpoenas in May to testify in the AG’s inquiry.

Lindsey Boylan, a former aide, became the first woman to accuse Cuomo of misconduct in a series of tweets in December. She then wrote about her time working for the governor on the website Medium, saying he kissed her on the lips in his Manhattan office in 2018.

Charlotte Bennett, 26, a former aide, said she believed Cuomo tried to proposition her in 2020 after he asked her probing questions about her sex life.

“I thought, he’s trying to sleep with me. The governor’s trying to sleep with me and I’m deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible,” Bennett told CBS News Anchor Norah O’Donnell.

An unidentified former aide has said Cuomo reached under her blouse to grab one of her breasts over her bra.

And Ana Liss, a policy and operations aide, has said that Cuomo acted inappropriately by touching her lower back at a reception and once kissing her hand when she got up from her desk.

Cuomo has denied any wrongdoing.

Debra Katz, a lawyer for Bennett, issued a statement slamming Cuomo and saying that the governor had initially “admitted his inappropriate behavior” and apologized.

“Since then, he has lied publicly over and over again in an attempt to walk back his original admission. Realizing his admission was insufficient to quell the public’s growing calls for accountability, he has since resorted to belligerent lies and a Trumpian refusal to stick to a single set of facts,” Katz said. “He has also demonstrated a jaw dropping ignorance of the sexual harassment law he signed into effect — without great fanfare — suggesting that his behavior is fine because he never meant to make women feel uncomfortable.”

The statement went on to note Saturday’s expected questioning.

“He will not be able to deflect questions like he has at his press conference and he will not be able to play with words. Will he admit to his inappropriate behavior, or will he continue his ridiculous lies and victim blaming? Which story will he tell this time?”

A Cuomo spokesman told the Times Union Thursday, “We have said repeatedly that the governor doesn’t want to comment on this review until he has cooperated.”

The spokesman did not respond to questions Saturday about the inquiry.

Karen Hinton, a former press aide to Cuomo, said she spoke to Kim and Clark about three weeks ago and over Zoom. Hinton has said Cuomo gave her inappropriate embraces during a 2000 work trip to Los Angeles when he was secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and she worked as a consultant for the agency.

Cuomo has denied the allegations.

Hinton said the investigators were particularly interested in one aspect of what she had to say.

“We talked about the pattern of sexual harassment, bullying, intimidation,” she said. “It just didn’t start when he became governor in the third term. This is something that’s been going on for a long time.”

Hinton said she was questioned for 90 minutes.

“They took everything I said very seriously. They didn’t seem bored,” she said.  

The inquiry into Cuomo also encompasses allegations that state employees were pressured to work on his most recent book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

There is a separate investigation by the FBI and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office over the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic including a cover-up of the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19.

He spent $285,000 in campaign cash to pay Glavin, documents released Friday show.

Cuomo in early June said he wasn’t using the campaign money for legal costs “at this time.”

Additional reporting by Garrett Downs and Steven Vago