Blondie's Debbie Harry met with FBI after her name and number appeared on a serial killer’s ‘hit list’

Debbie Harry was contacted by the FBI after her name and phone number appeared on a serial killer’s possible hitlist.

The Blondie singer was approached by officials investigating murders by Andrew Cunanan, who killed fashion designer Gianni Versace and four other people in 1997.

Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Harry revealed that she had met the murderer at a nightclub in New York and that her name appeared under that of Versace’s in a phone book he owned.

“I do remember actually speaking with him,” she said.

“He didn’t seem half bad, really. He was well-spoken and nice looking, he was with other people I knew.”

Harry, 74, added: “I was in his phone book and I got a call from the FBI. We were out at the beach somewhere around the Hamptons. They came out and wanted to know what I knew.”

Cunanan was 27 when he went on a killing spree across America in July 1997, ending when he took his own life on a Miami Beach houseboat, as police closed in.

Later, both Harry and Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein met with actor Darren Criss, who played the killer in American Crime Story.

They said it was a “full circle” moment.

The Cunanan chapter was not Harry’s only encounter with a serial killer, having apparently accepted a ride from Ted Bundy, who killed at least 30 girls and women in the mid 70s.

In an interview given in the late 1980s, Harry said: "It was in the early 70s and I was trying to get across town at two or three o'clock in the morning,” while in New York.

"This little car kept coming around and offering me a ride. I kept saying no but finally I took the ride because I couldn't get a cab.

"I got in the car and the windows were are rolled up, except for a tiny crack. This driver had an incredibly bad smell to him.

"I looked down and there were no door handles. The inside of the car was stripped. The hairs on the back of my neck just stood up.

"I wiggled my arm out of the window and pulled the door handle from the outside. I don't know how I did it, but I got out.

"He tried to stop me by spinning the car but it sort of helped me fling myself out. Afterwards I saw him on the news. Ted Bundy."

The claims have been challenged though, as her description off Bundy’s car does not match the one he used, and the killer lived most of his life in the Pacific Northwest.