Tweet Music: Courtney Love Sued for Defamation Over Posts

January 6, 2011 at 9:51 am PT

Like so many other celebrities, Courtney Love likes to reach her minions via Twitter.

But the rocker/model/bon vivant is now having to answer in court for some tweets that she fired off in 2009.

She has been sued by Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer, who in 2009 purportedly requested that Love pay up for clothes Simorangkir had designed.

Love apparently did not take too kindly to the financial request, tweeting that she allegedly had already paid Simorangkir as much as $40,000 and adding: “I do not make a person become famous and get raped too.”

But that wasn’t all. Love also claimed in tweets that Simorangkir was a drug pusher and prostitute.

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