Love pleads no contest to assault
Singer Courtney Love pleaded no contest to a reduced assault charge Thursday in a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors in which she agreed to anger management counseling, random drug testing and three years’ probation.
Love, 40, made a brief appearance in court before her attorney entered the plea on her behalf to a misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon before Superior Court Judge Rand S. Rubin.
Love had been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon in relation to an April 2004 incident at the home of a former boyfriend. Love allegedly found a 32-year-old woman sleeping on a sofa and threw a liquor bottle at her and chased her with a flashlight.
Defense attorney Howard Weitzman said two felony drug charges against Love in Beverly Hills Superior Court also will be “disposed” of under a similar plea agreement. Love had been charged there with charges of illegal possession of the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone.
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