Richie Sambora denies giving death threat to ex gal-pal

Washington: Former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has denied threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and ex-business partner Nikki Lund in a heated phone conversation last month.

The American rock guitarist rep Terry Ahern asserted that this was a cluster of fabricated lies in retaliation for Sambora's decision to cease further funding of the unprofitable partnership, plain and simple, Fox News reported.

Lund reportedly claimed to police that the 55-year-old rocker threatened to "dig a hole in the desert and bury" her during a phone call.

Sambora and Lund had an on-again, off-again relationship for nearly a decade after he divorced his wife Heather Locklear.