Fashion designer sues Courtney Love for contract breach, libel over unpaid work, online rants
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of Courtney Love’s online rants are now in a Los Angeles court.
A fashion designer’s libel and breach of contract lawsuit against the singer includes what she calls several “menacing and disturbing” statements posted on the Internet.
Austin, Texas-based Dawn Simorangkir (Sim-or-AHNG-ker), also known as Boudoir Queen, says Love never paid her for work done. She filed the lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The suit cites remarks from Love’s Twitter and MySpace pages, and in the feedback section of Etsy.com. It said Love called Simorangkir a “nasty lying hosebag thief” and accused her of being a drug addict and a prostitute.
Phone messages left for Love’s publicist Thursday and Friday were not immediately returned.
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