Lance Armstrong is insisting he is not a ‘dirty old man’ after facing a bout of teasing and controversy over his new found romance with twenty-one year old Ashley Olsen.

“I’m not a dirty old man,” an embarrassed Lance recently explained to friends.

“Lance is embarrassed at the teasing he’s getting. He had no idea that it would get into the papers that he was making out with Ashley,” a friend tells the National Enquirer.

Despite claims from Armstrong family members that the one time Tour de France champ is using the young Olsen, Enquirer moles say their love is real:

“….She’s certainly not after my money,” Lance is telling friends. “She’s worth way more than I am!”