Love holds 'bathroom conference'

We love bonkers Courtney
13 April 2012

Rocker Courtney Love has pleaded innocent to charges of assault and reckless endangerment for allegedly hitting a fan in the head with a microphone stand in March.

After the arraignment in New York, she delivered a rambling speech in a women's bathroom about the ex-boyfriend whose Los Angeles home she was accused of breaking into last year.

Love was in court yesterday because she allegedly hit Gregory Burgett with the stand as she performed at a club on March 18, a few hours after a bizarre appearance on David Letterman's Late Show in which she lifted her shirt to expose her breasts at least six times.

Mr Burgett, 24, claims he needed three staples in his head following the alleged attack.

Love arrived nearly two hours late for yesterday's arraignment. After the plea,
Judge Kathryn Freed released Love and the case was adjourned until June 28.

Her lawyer, Scott Tulman, said the length of time until the next hearing could
allow Love's case to be resolved out of court.

"We're discussing this with the (district attorney's) office and are hopeful that we can resolve this amicably," he said.

A swarm of reporters then followed Love into a bathroom, where she launched into a stream-of-consciousness harangue about ex-boyfriend Jim Barber that also touched on actor Russell Crowe, her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, and her late husband Kurt Cobain's Nirvana bandmates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic.

"You do not sleep with married men," Love said during the impromptu news conference in the women's bathroom at Manhattan Criminal Court.

Love, 39, filed a lawsuit on December 15, 2000, against Lesley Barber, the former wife of Jim Barber, an executive at Geffen Records. The suit was later settled.

The lawsuit alleged that Lesley Barber stalked her, threatened to burn her house down and ran over Love's foot.

Meanwhile, Love faces minor charges in Los Angeles of being under the influence of a controlled substance and disorderly conduct after being arrested for
allegedly trying to break into Jim Barber's home on October 2.

Love, whose husband killed himself in their Seattle home in 1994, gained independent fame with her band Hole and her role in the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt. Love has admitted using heroin in the past but has said she has cleaned up her act.

She recently released a solo album, America's Sweetheart.

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