Courtney Settles 'Twibel' Lawsuit Out of Court
Lovers of libel law and haters of bullying – cyber and otherwise – will be pleased to learn that original trainwreck Courtney Love has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to pay $430,000 to a fashion designer for writing defamatory Tweets about her in 2009. Courtney, singer in the band Hole, will be making payments to Dawn Simorangkir (a.k.a. the “Boudoir Queen”) until 2014, for Tweeting, among other things, that Simorangkir was an “asswipe nasty lying hosebag thief.”
Tweeters around the world are calling this an expensive lesson, and have created a new word for this kind of online ranting: “Twibel.”
It is just another example of Love: singer, actress and general celebrity-for-being-Kurt-Cobain’s-widow, taking her private business public.
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