Courtney Love claims Prince Andrew turned up at her house at 1am ‘looking for sex’

Courtney Love has claimed Prince Andrew once visited her house ‘looking for sex’ after turning up unexpectedly at 1am.

The singer claims the prince rang the bell of her Hollywood home after the pair were introduced by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

In her 2007 book, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love, the rocker published a picture of her with the Queen’s second son.

The 2000 meeting saw Prince Andrew acting ‘very flirtatious’ after arriving at her home unannounced with a protection officer, according to the Sun.

Love, who was married to Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain until he committed suicide in 1994, claimed Andrew was ‘looking for a good time’ in Los Angeles and was given her address by a mutual acquaintance.

Prince Andrew with the Queen leaving Balmoral today. Buckingham Palace said Courtney Love’s claims were incorrect 

Courtney Love’s Los Angeles home when Prince Andrew visited her in 2000 and she claimed he was ‘very flirtatious’

She made the Duke of York tea from a pot with his mother’s face on it, according to a friend of Love.

After chatting on the sofa for around 45 minutes the prince reportedly left. The pair did not have sex, the source said. 

Love reportedly told a friend: ‘Of all the things that have happened in my life, this truly is one of the most surreal things.’

The pair were pictured meeting in 2000 at the premiere of the How The Grinch Stole Christmas film in Universal City, California. 

In a 2006 TV interview Love, 55, claimed to have also met Andrew in Hay-On-Wye, Wales, and that the royal came ‘looking for chicks’. 

At the time a spokesman for the prince admitted he visited Love’s house but insisted he was not alone and said it was ‘absolute nonsense’ to suggest he went there looking for girls.

A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said Andrew visited Love’s home with a group of friends. 

He claimed the episode referred to by Love happened in 2000 – a year after Andrew claims to have first formally met Epstein.

In 2012 a contacts book seized by the FBI, that was then leaked, contained Love’s details. 

Courtney Love leaving a hotel in New York last week. She claimed Prince Andrew visited her home in Los Angeles unannounced

The Duke of York, at he attends The Duke of York Young Champions Trophy at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim

Singer Courtney Love checking out of the Mercer Hotel last week. The singer claimed the Duke of York was ‘very flirtatious’

Epstein was facing trial on sex trafficking charges when he was found hanged in his Manhattan jail cell in July.

The 66-year-old, who once counted US President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton as friends, was arrested on July 6 and pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of girls as young as 14. 

Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of media mogul Robert,connected him with high-profile friends such as Andrew, magician David Copperfield, disgraced film tycoon Harvey Weinstein and Trump. 

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell awaiting federal sex trafficking charges

Andrew was pictured with a 17-year-old Virginia Roberts, as she was known at the time, in 2001 in a photograph taken by Epstein at Ghislaine Maxwell’s west London home. 

Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleged in court papers in Florida that she had sex with Andrew ‘three times, including one orgy’ at Epstein’s home and on his private island in the Caribbean. 

However, a judge struck out this claim against the Duke of York in 2015, describing them as ‘immaterial and impertinent’. 

Sources close to the prince allege a picture taken in 2001 could have been altered as part of a ‘witch hunt’, claiming it does not show Andrew’s fingers because his are ‘chubbier’ and the pair’s respective height’s are wrong. 

After Epstein’s death, Prince Andrew issued a statement saying he was ‘appalled’ by the allegations against Epstein and insisted he only ‘saw him infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year’.

Epstein was convicted and previously jailed for 18 months in Florida in 2008 on charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Queen Elizabeth II arrives with her son the Duke of York, at Crathie Kirk to attend a Sunday morning church service near Balmoral

Prince Andrew seen today as he joined the Queen for the second time this summer at Balmoral estate where the Royal family spends their summer break

But that sentence, which was agreed in a plea deal with prosecutors, was widely criticised as it allowed the billionaire to leave his cell on a private wing six days a week for 12 hours a day on work release.

Despite the conviction, Prince Andrew continued to associate with Epstein and was pictured staying with him at his mansion in Manhattan in 2010.

He was pictured waving to a woman leaving the multi-million dollar home. It was subsequently revealed he was gesturing to the daughter to former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, Katherine. 

In 2011 Prince Andrew was forced to quit as UK trade envoy over his controversial friendship with Epstein.

Last week Love, who fronted punk band Hole, got into a social media row with opioid heiress, Joss Sackler, who offered the former addict $100,000 to appear at her New York fashion show.