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Here is a vote for being upfront with your potential new employer and not letting a falsehood linger over your time there if you do get hired by them.
I would give them human resources or a colleague and tell them that your previous manager is unavailable. Offer a peer instead, or another manager.
Chief
I think I would give a previous colleague, at the end of the day they just want some assurance from a previous employer. You could say you worked for longer with that colleague than the direct manager as they joined recently before you left.
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If you hide and they got to know; The interviewer's biggest concern won't be a difficult manager; it will be your attempt to obscure an inconvenient truth. Avoiding the contact signals to them that you are either incompetent at managing professional conflict or that you are hiding performance issues.
Chief
Give the peer reference. If they ask why, say your manager is unavailable. Unavailable is corporate code for “please do not open this can of worms.”