Twitter is HERE, people, like it or not, and now we KNOW it’s here, because it has its very first celebrity lawsuit! And it is — OF COURSE — against Courtney Love.
In Los Angeles Superior Court, clothes designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known as Boudoir Queen, last Thursday filed suit against Love for defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress for “an extensive rant” on Twitter about how she was billed for custom clothing.
It’s hard to be extensive when one is limited to just 140 characters. But if anybody can do it, it’s Love, who allegedly wrote grammatically challenged comments like “oi vey don’t f— with my wardrobe or you will end up in a circle of corched eaeth hunted til your dead.”
“Whether caused by a drug induced psychosis, a warped understanding of reality, or the belief that her money and fame allow her to disregard the law, Love has embarked (o)n what is nothing short of an obsessive and delusional crusade to terrorize and destroy Simorangkir, Simorangkir’s reputation and her livelihood,” says the complaint.
Love’s spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit.
First off, the rant WAS extensive. It occurred on March 17, and do you know how long it takes to get back to March 17 on Courtney’s Twitter account? For. Ever. (I just did it, I would know.) Courtney’s not someone who embraces Twitter as the truest embodiment of short-form writing. Rather than confine her thoughts to 140 characters, she just tweets again and again and again until it can genuinely be considered an extensive rant.
Because I love you guys, I got screen caps of all the Tweets in her rant against Dawn. They’re in the thumbnails. There are FOUR PAGES of it. Four pages of basic nonsense. There is something so very, very wrong with Courtney Love, and yet something so very right. You can’t force this kind of crazy.
And as for this Dawn person? I don’t know if she’s out for blood or if she’s just out for publicity. Either way, mission accomplished.
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