While Love’s Twitter account is currently not incredibly interesting, unless you’re looking for some advice related to life skills, it’s clearly been the source for consternation for those who are involved with Love on a business level. Although Love’s tweets consist of this kind of content:

And:

As well as litany of pro Kurt Cobain posts, she’s also used the account to apparently defame others she’s had dealings with. Whether it’s a verbal beatdown of the aforementioned fashion designer, leading the infamous settlement or complaining about previous business relationships with legal teams, it’s clear Love’s word carries a great deal of weight, and is apparently impossible to ignore.

Just ask Rhonda Holmes, who previously represented Love in a legal sense. According to reports, after Holmes refused to continue their business relationship, Love issued the following tweet:

I was f***ing devastated (sic) when Rhonda J Holmes Esq of San Diego was bought off [...]

And now she’s once again being taken to court over something she said on the Internet — with 140 characters or less! Holmes indicates Love’s tweet, as well as a follow-up interview where Love once again blasted Holmes, has severely damaged her legal career and her reputation. If this is indeed true, and not just a “I’ll show you” response, it means at least one thing I wasn’t aware of: Courtney Love’s opinion still matters.

The Hollywood Reporter’s post has some more details:

The complaint, filed by Holmes’ firm, alleges causes of action for libel, false light invasion of privacy and intentional interference with a prospective economic advantage. It seeks unspecified damages.

Considering Love’s luck with previous Twitter-related lawsuits, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising if Love lost this and lost big. The previous tweet-based lawsuit she faced resulted in a settlement. It wouldn’t be surprising if, because of the initial incident, Love is even more severely punished for speaking her mind.

In light of all this, perhaps Love should limit herself to self-improvement and Kurt Cobain tweets.

Just ask Courtney Love.

Perhaps the most famous widow in music history had a rather amusing Twitter account (CourtneyLoveUK), which has since been removed; but during its reign, Love’s feed offered a great deal of value. Whether it was stream-of-conscious rants or almost-naked pictures, Love always had something for the masses.

That is, until, she got downright nasty with fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, blasting Simorangkir with such gems like a “asswipe nasty, lying, hosebag thief”; or “a history of dealing cocaine”; and “lost all custody of her child”; as well as being convicted of “assault and burglary.”

As a response to Love’s kind compliments, Simorangkir filed a defamation suit against the Hole lead singer, and the results of the filing are in, and let’s just say Love’s comments about Simorangkir could very well go down as one of the most expensive tweets ever.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Love has agreed to pay the fashion designer $430,000.

Apparently, representing the celebrity who’s responsible for one of the more expensive tweets ever went to the head of Love’s attorney, James Janowitz, who offered this (misguided?) reaction about how pleased he was with the ruling:

“…because of the extended payout it’s a modest settlement. They got out with an amount that left them bragging rights but nothing else.”

Simorangkir’s legal team evidently wanted a higher sum, but had to settle for almost half a million dollars. One hopes that’s enough money to salve the wounds caused by Love’s Twitter rants.

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In the lawsuit, the designer claims she stopped working for Love after the rock star failed to pay up for previous work. Soon after, Love tweeted to her follows that the designer was a “nasty, lying, hosebag thief,” that she had a history of dealing cocaine, lost custody of her child and was guilty of assault and burglary.

Courtney Love, MySpace
Photo by Jan Welters

The suit also alleges Love commented on the designer’s business site, saying “The nastiest lying worst person I have ever known … evil incarnate, vile horrible lying bitch." The plaintiff claims Love’s remarks have devastated her business.

Love appears to tweet fairly constantly—just reading backward in time on her account will take one on a fairly weird and vulgar journey seeming to stretch out forever. Just try to get to the bottom of March 28 tweets and you’ll see what a daunting task it is to sift through the relative madness.

This isn’t the first time Love has made sensational claims or scathing remarks about people in cyberspace. Last summer, in a bizarre MySpace post no longer available, Love launched allegations against named accountants, managers, and lawyers she claimed embezzled $380 million from her.

While that post seems to have disappeared—the allegations were very specific and against some well known people—her most recent MySpace post continues the people-are-cashing-in-on-my-dead-husband’s-name trend. Love writes that identity thieves have been buying houses all over the country. She also claims there are only 27 Cobains in the country and none in Ohio or New Jersey.

A quick search through the Whitepages, though, brings back four Cobains in Ohio and two in New Jersey, though one supposes they could be bogus as well. Or it could be time for Ms. Love to seek professional help—at least in the form of ghost blogging/tweeting.   
 

Littered by poor punctuation and spelling, the stream-of-consciousness post comes across as one written under some sort of duress. Phrases melt into other phrases without pause, and names blend with other names making it difficult to decipher in places. If written before MySpace, we might be reading letters cut out of newspaper.

The names, by the way, are definitely real, even if it’s not clear if what she is talking about is real. Love includes the names of banks, bankers, managers, and of…alternative country singer Ryan Adams, who makes a non sequitur appearance toward the end.

The message is made more interesting by the timing. Recently, Love reported the ashes of her late husband, Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain, were stolen from her home, leaving her reportedly suicidal in the wake of the grief. Police visited her home with the same 5150 order they used to take Britney Spears in for psychiatric treatment.

On May 24, a guest blogger, "Jason T.," blogged that Love had been the victim of identity theft recently and hinted that her daughter, Frances Bean, was in some sort of danger. Love herself followed up on May 30 with a smooth, level-headed post, promising to keep her "piehole shut" about it despite being very angry while working with the authorities.

Over the weekend, Love was seen being pushed around in a shopping cart because of a broken toe, which she calls on her blog "shopping toe," before launching into computer fraud and embezzlement schemes.

Here is a lengthy excerpt of text from the strange post, edited for content but not for language:

why am i writing on MY SPACE? cos my fucking mac is soo corrupted i am never alone and have a VERY large shared community of assholes who tally every penny they spend of mine. . .nothing i send on aol or anything on this computer is going to go out due to brendan Melissa Mccourt and Barber that fucking disgutsing lizard are still all up in my shit and now i KNOW all the shit- ALL THE SHIT
aint no 72,000,000 embezzled!
its 380,000,000 embezzled and i can easily demonstrate it. . .
Kurt even "Bought" or rather me and Frances bought a now 9.8 million dollar home in Beverly Hills in 2001, he
"lives" in 153 houses wich hes purchased in the last 5 /8 yerars and i hjave every single property record and Comerica "Dissapeared" eg Banker Sonja Cochran just liek she
"Dissapeared" Kim Cobains home -eg by using the address "123 Reves apt d bev hills 90210" to put 330 ,000 dollars in Victoria Blakes Cancerous piehole, knowing fullwell that this would repossess that property within 18 months and my "Lawyer" being c eo of "Hole Incoroprated" FORMED in July 2006 when Perez, Steves got himself a 1.6 million dollar Loan from Cochran and then theres the matter of "Dissapearing" Frances ‘s 7.6 million dollars from Mestel, Weitzmans "Power of Attorney:" and the 198,000 dollar Franchise tax Board checks that were immediatly voided in "Dollhead incoproated" an Incoproation long sicne dissolved but noan account at Comerica amongst about i assume abnother 20 ms Coc hran doesnt feel the need to tell me due to the forged Powers Of Attorney , the obvious obstructions of justice,
she was supposed to have been removed from my account and has ANYONE EVER IN THIER FUCKING LIVES had a cde come to fruition and have thier BANKER pay down their Visa service for FRAUD charges? what fucking business is it of herss espaecillay as theres a very publically filed 2.4 million dollar police report.

bankers paying fraud charges on Visas?

Dollhead inc "owned" by a 109 year old Lester Knsipel ( hes really using the SSN system to all ya lalls advantage this creepy fuck is also a CPA in AZ the number one mortgage fraud state in the union and i SWEAR he put it there all by his lonesome and with Azoffs help in some obvious cases)

a 108 year old Irving Azoff who i barely even fucking KNOW

and my former counsel Howard Weitzman

what are these men doing together and why do they OWN HOLE INCOPRPORATED wich has no FEIN ( tax) number wich matches it?

why are there 129 email addresses on my fucking aol account? on my "shared" netwrok you creepy greedy old coots- you think that stealing from a CHILD a Widow and 3 dependents will not bite you in the ass?

they "Dissapeared" 1.8 million dollars in 72 hours in "wires" they"cant tell me" where the wires went and every email from Trudie Styler or Eric or Alan Mcgee ( this is how we know lizard barbers doing it too not only was an email of mine erased almost totally the other night by Mccourt or Brendan Vaughn but it was already printed out ANYWAY and you creeps in my file can eat me)

. . .i cant write you for a few more days til i get a real IT motherfucking hacker in here cos it wouldnt be fair to share your email address with these assholes.

. . .  i have zero way of communicating important shit with people with this many cucaraches crawling over my Computer

It’s hard to make of sense of that entirely, but it doesn’t sound good. Here’s what Google brings back for some of those of names, which may or may not be the ones to whom Love is referring:

Victoria Blake, of Victoria Blake Management. No website, just a MySpace profile and the words of another MySpacer saying she manages groups like Depeche Mode and Tool.

Lester Knispel, Partner, Boulevard Management. Probably not 109, a Lester Knispel is CPA to the stars, managing the deep pockets of Barry Manilow, Andre Agassi, Shaquille O’Neal, and Barbara Streisand. In an interview, Knispel speaks about learning by trial and error how to manage musician clients, and how "you need to understand the psyche of the field you’re dealing with."

Irving Azoff, founder and chairman of Azoff Music Management Group, Inc., personal manager for The Eagles, Aerosmith, Bush, REO Speedwagon, Seal, Journey, Christina Aguilera, Van Halen, Neil Diamond, New Kids on the Block, Steely Dan, and Guns N’ Roses, according to Wikipedia, which also says he’s 61, not 108.

Howard Weitzman, attorney to the stars, has represented the late Marlon Brando, Magic Johnson, Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, Arnold Schwartzenegger, and John DeLorean—yes, the John DeLorean.

Alan McGee is a British music mogul and musician, who brought us The Jesus and Mary Chain and Oasis.

The address she mentions doesn’t exist, but it’s likely typographical error. There is a 123 S Reeves Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, pointing to a high-rise complex.