Tour’s off, but court schedule is jammed

Courtney Love’s latest album is titled “America’s Sweetheart,” but her recent life trajectory seems to be more suited for “America’s Most Wanted.”

That may be a cruel quip, especially for an artist who has shown intense boldness and raw emotion in her best music and film work, but the fact is that Love has more courtroom dates than concerts in her near future after postponing her summer tour.

There is also ominous history: She is the widow of Kurt Cobain, an almost iconic victim of self-destruction, and she has become a symbol of reckless rock life.

On Aug. 6, Love has a bail hearing in Los Angeles for a drug possession case and, after missing a previous docket date, the district attorney’s office has asked the judge to order the singer taken into custody as “a danger to the community and a flight risk.”

That’s only a portion of her law troubles. She is due in Manhattan on Sept. 7 on charges that she cracked a concert fan over the head with a microphone stand. Back here, there’s also a bench warrant with her name on it that was issued July 9, the singer’s 40th birthday, when she failed to appear to answer charges that she attacked a 32-year-old woman with a liquor bottle in April. There are other cases too -- a sentence to be served for a drug charge from October and the assault accusations of two police officers.

And where is Love? One of her attorneys, Michael Rosenstein, told the news media Friday that Love was in a New York medical facility. New York authorities confirmed that a 911 call was made on July 9 reporting that a woman was having a miscarriage. News photos that day showed Love, cuffed and on a gurney, being taken from her home. Earlier, Love’s neighbors told the press that the haggard star had been roaming the sidewalks and saying she was afraid of someone.

Rosenstein also said last week: “She will 100% be back voluntarily before the jurisdiction to face any and all charges against her.”

With her band Hole, Love released two major-label albums, 1994’s “Live Through This” and 1999’s “Celebrity Skin,” which sold a combined 3 million copies and earned her notice as more than Cobain’s widow. Her solo effort, “America’s Sweetheart,” released in February, has not reached the 100,000 copies threshold.