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Courtney Love Tweets Her Way Into a Defamation Suit

By Brendan McKenna

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From THR, Esq. comes word that Courtney Love has tweeted her way into a lawsuit. Starting in March 2009, the rocker allegedly began a series of tirades on Twitter against fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, who was demanding payment for a couple thousand dollars' worth of clothes she said Love owed her. THR, Esq. notes that: [Love] announced that Simorangkir was a drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery who lost custody of her own child and capitalized on Love's own fame before stealing from her. '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 wrote. Not only did Love, front woman for the band Hole, slam the designer on Twitter, she also turned to Etsy.com and MySpace (remember, this was two years ago, when MySpace was a bit more relevant than it is now). The attorney for Simorangkir, Bryan Freedman, claims that there has never been a Twitter case like this before, but a quick Google search (very quick) seems to suggest otherwise. Love's attorney, James Janowitz, claims "we don't believe there's any defamation, and even if there were defamatory statements, there...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).