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Stones members felt L’Wren ‘was their Yoko’

Mick Jagger’s doomed lover, L’Wren Scott, was loathed by his bandmates as the group’s Yoko Ono — and even the rocker told her to stay away from the Rolling Stones’ latest world tour, The Post has learned.

“The rest of the band didn’t like L’Wren because she was so controlling,” a source said of the fashion designer, who hanged herself Monday in her luxe Manhattan condo.

“When they saw her, they said, ‘Here comes Yoko.’ ”

Ono, the widow of murdered Beatle John Lennon, has been widely blamed by fans for breaking up the legendary British band in 1970.

Scott offered to design the costumes for the Stones tour, but his bandmates didn’t want them. “She ended up just designing Mick’s outfits,” the source said.

Scott had traveled with the Stones for 10 years — and the source said Jagger’s rejection “must have been a huge blow for her.”

The Stones kicked off their “14 on Fire” tour on Feb. 21 in Abu Dhabi, then performed in Tokyo, Macau, Shanghai and Singapore before heading to Australia for a planned show Wednesday.

That concert and six others in Australia and New Zealand were shelved in the wake of Scott’s death.

The city medical examiner officially ruled Scott’s death a suicide by hanging on Wednesday. Her body was claimed by the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on the Upper East Side, which recently handled the arrangements for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman following his drug overdose.

Scott used a black satin scarf to hang herself from a door handle Monday morning in her Chelsea duplex, where her assistant found her after being summoned there by text message.

Sources have said Jagger recently dumped Scott, whom he began dating in 2001.

His rep, who denies the split, said on Wednesday that the claim he didn’t want her on tour is “ridiculous.”

But the source close to Scott said that in addition to her rejection by the Stones, Scott struggled to get along with Jagger’s family.

“She tried really hard to get along with Mick’s daughters. She was always inviting them to family holiday dinners, but they just didn’t warm to her,” the source said.

“They also thought she was controlling, and that Mick was different, more reserved and less fun, when he was with her.”

The source also cited the “serious financial problems” faced by the willowy, 6-foot-3 brunette’s fashion firm.

“While the clothes were beautiful, they were really only made to fit someone like her — and not many people look like her,” the source said. “Mick had helped her with investment money, but it still wasn’t going anywhere. She had been asking Mick’s friends and business associates to invest for a long while.

“The decision to close her business must have been very sad and humiliating for her,” the source said.

“She had a lot of pride. That, combined with being told she couldn’t go on the Stones tour, could have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

British business records filed last year show that Scott’s London-based company, LS Fashion Ltd., owed millions of dollars to creditors, and The New York Times reported that Scott had planned to announce its closure Wednesday.

Scott spent last week with a friend on the private Caribbean island of Mustique — where Jagger owns a beachfront villa — then returned to New York on Saturday.

“The strange thing is that she had a small dinner party at her home on Sunday night with a few friends, but nobody knew that she planned on taking her own life the next day,” one source said.