Courtney Love Settles for Almost Half a Million Dollars for Her Twitter Rants

Better watch what you say on the internet!

Courtney Love is paying out of court $430,000 over her possibly defamatory rants against L.A. fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir. I always say “it’s not slander if it’s true.” In this case, we’re not sure what’s going on, but she probably paid them off to avoid the public scrutiny of a messy court battle.

I’m guessing Kanye and Charlie Sheen didn’t want a precedent set, making celebrities liable for their angry tweets.

Where's my check? I had to look at Courtney Love's photos, they are not pretty.

The lawsuit contained several postings written under Love’s former Twitter account, courtneylover79, that accused Simorangkir of theft and of having a criminal background. The case had been scheduled to go to trial in February, and was expected to be the first trial in which a jury decided whether a celebrity’s Twitter posts could be considered libel.

We could have had some amazing court battles.

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