Courtney Love denies Prince Andrew bugged her for sex after they reportedly met through Jeffrey Epstein

Courtney Love has denied a report that Prince Andrew was looking “for sex” and a “fun night in Hollywood” when he turned up at at her home in the middle of the night, back when rich and famous people could be more open about their friendships with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The report came from the U.K. tabloid The Sun over the weekend, which says the encounter between Love and Andrew, once dubbed “Randy Andy” for his playboy ways, happened in 2000 at the singer’s Los Angeles home.

The singer has acknowledged an encounter but said it happened around 2001.

The Sun also said that Love, the widow of Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain, and Andrew, the Duke of York, met through the now-deceased Epstein, several years before he was first investigated for sex trafficking charges.

The Sun said Love, 55, told a friend that she was in bed at around 1 a.m. when the doorbell rang. “So put on my fluffy slippers and a dressing gown, and the queen’s second son was standing there with a protection officer, totally unannounced,” Love reportedly told the friend.

“He said he had got my address from a mutual friend and was looking to have a fun night in Hollywood, and apparently I could show him a good time,” Love continued, according to The Sun.

“He seemed to be looking for sex and was quite flirtatious,” Love added.

The Hole frontwoman suggested she wasn’t interested in the Duke of York in that way, and there was no sex, according to The Sun.

“I offered to make him a cup of tea, and thought it would be amusing to serve him it out of a vintage china cup with the Queen’s face on it,” Love said, according to the Sun account. “We found it funny.”

Love took to Instagram Sunday to offer a different account of that midnight tea at her Beverly Hills home.

“I met HRH Prince Andrew with a group of friends in 2001 ish .. We were at my house, he came over. He was polite. He complimented my tea making (loose leaf , Browns) which made me happy. He left. That’s about it. Do ot recall meeting him again after that … I don’t know him.”

The late-night tea was memorialized in a photo that appeared in Love’s memoirs, “Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love,” The Sun said.

But the incident is back in the news as Love and Andrew, 59, are among the rich and famous people whose ties to the multimillionaire financier have faced scrutiny since his arrest in July on new sex trafficking charges and his Aug. 10 suicide in a Manhattan jail.

Love’s name appears in Epstein’s infamous “little black book,” with the financier having four different contact numbers for her in Beverly Hills, Gawker reported in 2015.

Meanwhile, Andrew’s friendship with Epstein has created a new and unsavory scandal for the royal family as details continue to emerge about the various ways that Andrew socialized with Epstein, starting in the late 1990s and continuing at least through 2010.

Andrew also has been accused by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s alleged “sex slaves,” of having sex with her three times when she was 17 in 2001. The Sacramento-born Giuffre, now 36, called Andrew out during a press conference outside a Manhattan courthouse in August.

Guiffre was among two dozen women who told a federal judge about how Epstein sexually abused them and used his wealth and power over the years to silence them and to avoid prosecution on federal sex trafficking charges.

When asked by reporters if she had a message for the Duke of York, Giuffre said: “He knows exactly what he’s done, and I hope he comes clean about it.”

While Andrew has repeatedly denied having sex with Giuffre or knowing about Epstein’s alleged abuse of underaged girls, it has been well-documented in court filings and news reports that Andrew enjoyed multiple visits to Epstein’s different homes and multiple trips on his private planes.

Andrew also invited Epstein to attend his 40th birthday party at Windsor Castle in 2000, and he and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson hosted Epstein at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle in 2006 — several days before Epstein’s first arrest on sex trafficking charges.

Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting a minor for prosecution in 2008, in a now controversial plea deal that allowed him to serve his sentence in a county jail work-release program.

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