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‘NO LOVE’ CHILD OF BUCKLEY

Christopher Buckley has never laid eyes on his out-of-wedlock son – and has demanded that the boy’s mother never contact him.

Little Jonathan, 8, whose mother, Irina Woelfle, was a Random House publicist in New York when she hooked up with the writer Buckley, regularly asks his mother why his father has rejected him.

“Why doesn’t [my father] want to see me? Why doesn’t he want to meet me?” the boy asks, according to Sandra Cuba, 38, the next-door neighbor of Jonathan and his mother in Coral Gables, Fla.

Last month at the local community pool, Jonathan wistfully watched his friends play with their fathers and asked his mom about his own dad, Cuba said.

Woelfle sadly told the boy, “Some fathers are bad fathers.”

The cherub-faced love child innocently replied, “Why can’t we just send him instructions on how to be a good dad?”

Details on the relationship and fallout between Buckley and Woelfle are hazy, but Cuba insists that “it wasn’t a one-night stand. It was an ongoing relationship that lasted for several years.”

The married, 56-year-old Buckley – author of the comic novel “Thank You for Smoking” and son of conservative icon William F. Buckley – entered into a 2003 child-support agreement with Woelfle in which he not only waived visitation rights but also prohibited any contact with his ex-lover. The only contact would be the monthly $3,000 checks he sends her.

Woelfle, now a publicist in Florida, sued Christopher Buckley in April, seeking more money because she wants to put Jonathan, who suffers from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, into a private school.

She also wants the court to order Buckley to spend time with his son, saying it’s in the boy’s best interest to “establish a relationship with his father and extended paternal family.”

Buckley lawyer Bruce Christensen confirmed that the author has never met the boy, but denied that the youngster has expressed an interest in seeing his dad or is suffering from his absence.

“This is the first time I’m hearing about this,” Christensen said. “When a child never had a father, how would he know what to miss?

“This is no different from the hundreds of thousands of other children who have to live without a parent.”

Jonathan’s grandfather, William F. Buckley, the founder of the conservative magazine the “National Review,” died in February and specifically excluded Jonathan from his $30 million estate, leaving in his only child, Christopher, and his son’s two grown children, Caitlin, 20, and William, 17.

“I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes . . . shall be deemed to have predeceased me,” Buckley’s will states.

scahalan@nypost.com