A November profile of one-time rock queen Courtney Love in The New York Times revealed the following facts about the singer’s current state: she smokes Marlboro Golds, reads self-help books such as What to Say to Get Your Way, cavorts naked and drunk through hotel corridors with neo-expressionist painters, can no longer apply makeup with accuracy, fixes a breakfast of “wakeup cupcakes” and “some anti-depressants,” and hasn’t spoken to the daughter she had with Kurt Cobain in some time.
The headline of the story was “Courtney Love: ‘I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.'”
More troubles for the former first lady of rock: the fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir is suing her for a series of defamatory tweets. It could be the first time Twitter is implicated in such a lawsuit — The Hollywood Reporter has it from Simorangki’s lawyer Bryan Freedman that “There has never been anything like this case before.”
Naturally, Love’s attorney’s plan to spin some sort of insanity defense, saying that her mental state was not “subjectively malicious.”
The trial is set to begin February 6 — just in time for Fashion Week. She had quite the presence last September, so we’ll be pulling for this mess to get cleared up so she can return to the stage and the runway, in her full Courtney glory.
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