The United States Supreme Court has declined to revive a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by an accuser, who claimed the entertainer smeared her as a liar after she publicly accused him of rape.

The panel Tuesday rejected the appeal from Kathrine McKee, an actress who has accused the disgraced funnyman of raping her in a Detroit hotel room in 1974.

Mckee filed her suit against Cosby — who is serving three to ten years behind bars for drugging and molesting another woman in Pennsylvania — after his lawyer Martin Singer called her a liar in a press release.

Two lower courts have deemed Singer’s words didn’t rise to defamation, concluding that McKee was a “limited purpose public figure.”

While he agreed with the ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas also called for the court to reconsider the high standard used in defamation cases.

Cosby, 81, was convicted last year at retrial for the 2004 attack on Andrea Constand, and sentenced to prison time.

He was moved to general population earlier this month, where his spokesman claims Cosby is having an “amazing” time.

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