Courtney Love Headed for History-Making Tweet Defamation Trial
The Widow Cobain is in trouble for allegedly defaming one of her former lawyers in a tweet. This one has brewing for almost two years. I quote from The Hollywood Reporter.
At a hearing on Friday morning, a Los Angeles judge decided that a jury should decide next month whether Courtney Love defamed her ex-attorney in a tweet and news interview. The ruling means that unless there is an unexpected settlement in the next two weeks, Love will become the first celebrity to be subject to a trial over an allegedly defamatory social media message.The rock star is in trouble over tweet from 2010 that read, “I was fucking devestated [sic] when Rhonda J. Holmes esq. of san diego was bought off @FairNewsSpears perhaps you can get a quote.”
Rhonda Holmes was hired by Love in 2008 to pursue a fraud case against those handling the estate of Kurt Cobain, the late Nirvana frontman and Love’s husband. Holmes says she was terminated while Love maintains that her ex-lawyer failed to perform her task.
I have an odd personal connection to this case that has me, er, following it closer than I normally would. Sorry to be so cryptic, but at this point, that’s the most prudent course of action.
The trial begins January 13.
