Courtney Love’s Tweets Lead To Lawsuit

Courtney Love (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

In a sue happy culture everyone is getting sued these days. Only this time it’s the ever eccentric Courtney Love. The Hole singer is being accused of defaming fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir because of her tweets.

Simorangkir is suing Love for defamation in a suit that will go to court on January 18. The tweets that are in question came in March 2009 after the designer demanded Love pay for her clothing bill. Following, Love tweeted that Simorangkir is a “drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery.” Love continues, “She has received a VAST amount of money from me over 40,000 dollars and I do not make people famous and get raped TOO!” Love certainly has a way with words, poetic almost.

“ We don't believe there's any defamation.
” Love's attorney James Janowitz According to Simorangkir’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, the comments destroyed the designer’s fashion career. What makes this trial different from Love’s past legal woes is it’s the first defamation court case over a celebrity’s Twitter comments. Although Simorangkir and her lawyers have a social media expert (whatever that means) on their side, the Love camp isn’t too worried. “We don’t believe there’s any defamation, and even if there were defamatory statements, there’s no damage,” Love’s lawyer James Janowitz said.

The Hole frontwoman is scheduled to testify in court but has already given a deposition for the case in which she claimed that she was only repeating what she heard from the designer herself. Allegedly calling oneself a “drug-pushing prostitute” seems unlikely to me, but only time will tell.