Hospitalized Love Faces Arrest

New details are emerging about Courtney Love's dismally unhappy 40th birthday last Friday.

New York City police, who are acting on a bench warrant issued for her arrest after she failed to appear in a Los Angeles court, could take the troubled rocker into custody when she's released from Bellevue Hospital, possibly as early as Monday.

The former Hole singer was due in the L.A. court Friday to face arraignment on a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon. That charge stems from an Apr. 25 incident at ex-boyfriend Jim Barber's house in which Love allegedly attacked a 32-year-old woman with a liquor bottle and a flashlight.

Love's lawyer told the judge that the performer was "confused" about whether she had to appear in court and was back in her New York apartment. The judge didn't buy it. He issued a warrant for her arrest and doubled her bail to $150,000.

Hours later, paramedics rushed to the hospital instead for what her attorney said was a "gynecological condition."

According to an account in the New York Times, she wasn't exactly in a celebratory mood.

Responding to a call saying bottles were being thrown from a window at Love's SoHo address, police found her engaged in lively banter with paparazzi camped out below her third-floor window. It was when the photographers serenaded her with "Happy Birthday" that she reportedly began to behave erratically.

"After the 'Happy Birthday,' that's when she put the blinds up," one bystander, Samuel Jackson (no relation to the actor) told the Times. "Maybe the 'Happy Birthday' upset her."

"She didn't look like a star to me," said an unnamed officer on the scene. "I calmed her down, because Courtney was really out of it."

The cop noted that The People vs. Larry Flynt star was alone and very "unhappy" when they found her and that her apartment was a "wreck."

Eventually, police handcuffed her and called an ambulance. Eyewitnesses say a distraught Love, her celebrity skin looking "very pale," struggled with medical attendants and cursed at them as they carried her down on to the ambulance on a stretcher about 6 p.m. She was subsequently taken to Bellevue, where she spent the weekend.

Another officer told the Times that Courtney punched a fan and told him she had an abortion on Thursday.

There has been no word as to why she was hospitalized. A spokesperson for the New York Fire Department confirmed that an EMS crew responded to a call at Love's loft that someone was bleeding from a "miscarriage," but the rep would not identify the caller as Love.

A statement released by Love's Los Angeles-based attorney Michael Rosenstein said the problem was strictly "gynecological."

"She is conscious and in stable condition," said Rosenstein. "This is unrelated to any type of substance use or abuse. This is not an injury related to any altercation, nor is it a suicide attempt. We categorically deny that it has anything to do with drugs."

Bellevue officials on Monday declined to discuss the matter.

A spokesman for the NYPD said Love was not charged with anything, since police could not determine who threw the bottles that initiated the call. He also added that he "had no knowledge" whether his department planned to act on the bench warrant.

Rosenstein said that as soon as she's well enough, Love plans to return to Los Angeles on her own to face the assault charges and post the new bond.

Love's also scheduled to appear in a Beverly Hills court on Thursday for a pretrial hearing on two felony counts of illegal drug possession.

Love has pleaded not guilty to having a stash of unprescribed painkillers at her home. That arrest came after Love reportedly OD'd following an October meltdown at Barber's house.

Then on Friday, Love is set to be sentenced in Los Angeles for smashing Barber's windows last Oct. 2 while under the influence of cocaine. She has pleaded guilty to that misdemeanor charge.

And on Sept. 7, Love is due back in Manhattan Criminal Court on misdemeanor assault charges stemming from a microphone-tossing incident in a New York nightclub. She has pleaded innocent in that case.

Last month, Love nixed a summer tour in support of her disappointing solo debut, America's Sweetheart, due to all her legal hassles.