Twitter Sparks Its First Libel Action
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kurt Cobain’s widow, singer Courtney Love is at the center of a libel suit due to her angry Tweets against her former fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir.
According to a libel claim lodged by Simorangkir in Los Angeles Superior Court , Love carried out “an obsessive and delusional crusade” of malicious libel against her on Twitter, adding insult on MySpace and other websites.
- The singer claims that numerous posts sent out on Twitter accusing her“of being a “nasty, lying, hosebag thief”; having “a history of dealing cocaine”; having “lost all custody of her child”; and, being guilty of “assault and burglary”. The singer adds that the designer would be “hunted til your [sic] dead”.
- Ms Simorangkir is seeking punitive damages, arguing that the comments have destroyed her reputation and her business.
It appears that Ms. Courtney has yet to get her act together…
Read the story in The Independent in its entirety.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/loves-online-spat-sparks-first-twitter-libel-suit-1656621.html
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April 11th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Courtney Love has a stylist? The stylist claims her?
So many words. So little bandwidth.
February 21st, 2010 at 2:23 am
[...] Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kurt Cobain’s widow, singer Courtney Love is at the center of a libel suit… According to a libel claim lodged by Simorangkir in Los Angeles Superior Court , Love carried out “an obsessive and delusional crusade” of malicious libel against her on Twitter, adding insult on MySpace and other websites. [...]