Love Avoids Jail, Not Rehab...or Suit
If all goes well, Courtney Love won't be bolstering her hell-raising status anytime soon.
The erratic rocker-actress, recently voted second in a VH1 poll of music's all-time living hell-raisers, was sentenced to 180 days in rehab Friday as penance for probation violations.
Love, 41, caught a break with the order. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin could have made the "Celebrity Skin" singer serve out the six-month stint in jail.
But Rubin was "very pleased" with how Love was coming along since he sent her packing to a treatment facility on Aug. 20.
"I think it's an excellent first step on your road to recovery," the judge told Love.
The sobriety-challenged Love drew Rubin's ire last month when she admitted in court to relapsing at a Hollywood hotel in July. Rubin found her in violation of probation on two misdemeanor drug convictions and one misdemeanor assault case and ordered her to immediately check into a 28-day rehab program.
The assault case paid further dividends, as they were, on Friday when the woman injured in April 2004 by Love's wild whiskey-bottle swings sued the entertainer. "We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault," plaintiff's attorney Gloria Allred announced to reporters.
With Rubin's final sentence handed down--180 days in rehab; 18 months tacked onto her probation--Love attorney Howard Weitzman told City News Service that his star client "fully intends to make good on her promise to be clean and sober."
But sounding like a man who's been down this road before, Weitzman also said that "Courtney will make the difference. Either she'll do it or she won't. I hope she will."
"I had the same hopes last time, and she relapsed."
Love's latest slip-up came as she was shouting, literally, about how she'd been "sober for a year!"
As part of her continuing treatment, Love will now move to a new facility, the attorney told the wire service.
Frances Bean Cobain, Love's 13-year-old daughter with her late husband, Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain, has been talking to her troubled mother "almost on a daily basis," Weitzman told CNS.
Love regained custody of the child in January.
The Hole frontwoman is next due back in court Nov. 18 for a progress report hearing.
Perhaps by then, Love will have proved herself no threat to music's all-time still-living hell-raiser. At 61, Keith Richards doesn't need the competition.
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