“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin sensationally claimed on-air that she was the lone holdout juror who forced a notorious NYC cannibal killer to be found not guilty by reason of insanity — but multiple sources from the time directly refute her story, The Post can reveal.

“Several jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict,” Hostin read aloud from a New York Times article from the 1991 trial on Tuesday.

“That was me,” she asserted.

Hostin, 57, told the tale of being the lone jury holdout in the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park” case as she discussed the parallels between that case and Lindsay Clancy’s own insanity defense.

But 35 years ago, jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the Associated Press that the actual holdout juror was an unemployed man who wanted to keep the trial going as long as he could so that he could benefits from the court.

A law enforcement source from the time also told The Post that the holdout was a man.

“He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the three free meals,” juror Valerie Holmes told Newsday in the aftermath of the verdict.

“He liked that we were arguing on and on.”

Holmes reiterated the claim to The Post and The Daily News, describing the holdout as being “very determined” and “manipulative” man determined to get his way.

“From day one, this particular person was determined that the jury was going to find Rakowitz not guilty by reason of mental disease,” jury forewoman Lois Markle told the AP at the time.

Hostin was quoted as a juror on the case in multiple news clips from the time — but she did not identify herself as the holdout, nor did any of the fellow jurors who talked to the press after the trial.

Her statement to Newsday from the time even seemed to contradict her story.

“We had to compromise. But it is obvious to me he butchered the body and he literally got away with murder. He attempted to commit the perfect crime,” she told the paper in 1991, who quoted the then-22-year-old paralegal under her government name at the time, Asunción Cummings.

Following Hostin’s claim on “The View,” a law enforcement source familiar with the case also confirmed with The Post that the holdout juror was a man, not a woman.

“We were told that the juror who held out was a man. There was no other description,” the source said Wednesday.

One Newsday article from 1991, however, suggested that there were two holdout jurors who pushed the other 10 to find Rakowitz not guilty or risk a hung jury.

That story did not provide any additional details on who the second, supposed holdout was and only focused on the unemployed man.

Asked by The Post, Hostin reiterated her claim and doubled down on the fact that she was the lone holdout juror in the infamous case.

“I was. I was the holdout juror,” Hostin said while laughing off the idea that a man was the lone holdout.

The shocking case involved Daniel Rakowitz, who admitted he killed his roommate — 26-year-old dance student and sometime-stripper Monika Beerle — in 1989 and then dismembered her body.

He also bragged that he boiled her head and made a soup from her brains and fingers, which he ate and then fed to local homeless people.

After he was found not guilty, Rakowitz was committed to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Ward’s Island. A 2005 court hearing found that he was still too mentally unstable to be released and he should remain in the mental hospital.