Courtney Love has tweeted some crazy things on Twitter over the years, but a particularly mean tweet has resulted in a large monetary settlement. The lead singer of Hole has apparently agreed to a $430,000 settlement with Dawn Simorangkir for writing in 2009 that the clothing designer is “a—wipe nasty lying hosebag thief.

Based on information from the Hollywood Reporter, the singer, famous for the song “Doll Parts” will settle out of court by agreeing to make payments to Simorangkir until the end of 2014. The suit was filed by Simorangkir in March, 2009 in the Los Angeles Superior Court stating that the singer defamed her by going on “an obsessive and delusional crusade.”

Love also tweeted that Simorangki was “a drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery.” She also wrote in another public place that, “She has received a VAST amount of money from me over 40,000 dollars and I do not make people famous and get raped TOO!” After these tirades, Love cancelled her Twitter account.
Bryan Freedman, lawyer for Simorangkir stated in the interview, “The amount of the settlement says it all. Her reprehensible defamatory comments were completely false and $430,000 is quite a significant way to say I am sorry. One would hope that, given this disaster, restraint of pen, tongue and tweet would guide Ms. Love’s future conduct.”

James Janowitz, lawyer for Love, stated that he thought it was “a modest settlement” and that “They got out with an amount that left them bragging rights but nothing else.”

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