Tag: COURTNEYLOVE

Courtney Love has agreed to pay about $430,000 to settle a defamation lawsuit filed against her by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir. The dispute began in 2009, after the designer claimed that Love owed her $4,000 for services specified in a contract. Love disagreed, and posted a series of profanity-laced comments to her Twitter account, calling Simorangkir a "nasty lying hosebag thief," among ...

Last spring, fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir sued Courtney Love after the eccentric musician unleashed a Twitter tirade of raving, explicit and extremely disjointed insults. Barring a last minute settlement, that defamation suit is now officially headed for the courtroom. February 6th remains the target date, and Judge Debre Weintraub has received the (dis)honor of presiding over -- and ...

What separates Twitter from other social networking sites has always been its trademark brevity. Restricted to 140 characters, users are forced to be concise and truncate their thoughts, opinions, or news. As is often the case, though, pithiness comes at the expense of nuance, subtlety or sarcastic intonation, leaving tweets open to wide and varied interpretation. When the tweeter has some ...

As unbelievable as it may sound, some of the Switched office's 20- and 30-somethings aren't, and never have been, Nirvana fans. Even the ambivalent among us, though, find the above video -- an excerpt from 'Guitar Hero 5' -- to be cringe-inducing, if not flat-out wrong. You're right; that's Kurt Cobain, the iconic (hair in the) face of Gen X and Y's disaffection. And, right again, he's ...

We may have bombed in the Switched NCAA tournament brackets, but we just nailed our first annual Twitter Celebrity Lawsuit pool. That's right, we picked the effusive Courtney Love, and she wasted no time in eliciting a slander lawsuit by posting rambling, profane tweets (updates on the microblog site Twitter). According to Reuters, Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer also known as Boudoir ...