Sunny Hostin’s sensational claim that she was the lone juror who forced an insanity verdict in a notorious New York City cannibalism trial has been sharply challenged by accounts from the time.

Multiple jurors and a law enforcement source identified the central holdout as a man.

The 57-year-old “The View” cohost raised the 1991 case while discussing parallels with Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense.

Hostin portrayed herself as the lone holdout in the trial of Daniel Rakowitz, known as the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.”

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During Tuesday’s broadcast, Hostin read from a New York Times article about the trial.

“Several jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict,” she read aloud.

Reports published after the verdict, however, point in a different direction.

Jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the Associated Press that the holdout was an unemployed man who wanted the trial to continue so he could keep receiving court pay and meals.

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Juror Valerie Holmes offered a particularly blunt account to Newsday after the verdict.

“He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the three free meals,” Holmes said.

Holmes also repeated the story to The Post and the Daily News, describing the holdout as a “very determined” and “manipulative” man who was set on getting his way.

Those descriptions directly conflict with Hostin’s claim that she alone resisted the other jurors.

Jury forewoman Lois Markle also described the decisive juror as a specific person who entered deliberations with a firm position.

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

Hostin appeared in multiple news reports as a juror following the trial, but she did not identify herself as the holdout in those accounts.

The other jurors who spoke with reporters also did not name her as the person who had blocked a guilty verdict.

A statement Hostin gave Newsday at the time appeared to describe a collective compromise rather than her own solitary stand.

The newspaper identified the then 22-year-old paralegal by her government name, Asunción Cummings.

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“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 Newsday following the trial.

Hostin also spoke with The New York Times about the jury’s conclusion regarding Rakowitz’s intent.

“We don’t think he intended to kill her. But once he did, he dismembered her body in an effort to commit the perfect crime.”

Following Hostin’s claim on “The View,” a law enforcement source familiar with the case told The Post that authorities had been given a different description of the holdout.

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

One Newsday report from 1991 added a complication by suggesting there were actually two holdout jurors.

According to that account, the two pushed the other 10 jurors toward finding Rakowitz not guilty or facing a hung jury.

That report offered no additional information about the supposed second holdout and focused entirely on the unemployed man.

It therefore did not identify Hostin as either of the jurors who resisted a guilty verdict.

When The Post asked Hostin about the conflicting accounts, she stood firmly by her version and laughed off the suggestion that the sole holdout was a man.

“I was. I was the holdout juror,” Hostin said.

The case centered on Rakowitz, who admitted killing his roommate, 26-year-old dance student and sometime stripper Monika Beerle, in 1989 before dismembering her body.

He also bragged that he boiled her head, made soup using her brains and fingers, ate it, and fed it to local homeless people.

After Rakowitz was found not guilty, he was committed to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Ward’s Island.

A 2005 court hearing determined that he remained too mentally unstable to be released and should stay in the mental hospital.