Courtney Love faces new disorder charges

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a new misdemeanour charge of disorderly conduct against singer Courtney Love.

Beside the new charge filed, Love, 39, already faces one misdemeanour charge of being under the influence of a controlled substance.

She is charged separately in Beverly Hills Superior Court on two felony counts of drug possession.

Both misdemeanour charges stem from her arrest on October 2, when police said she was found breaking windows at the home of a former boyfriend.

The trial was scheduled to begin yesterday, but the proceedings were postponed because the results of Love’s drug test were not complete.

Love was not in court yesterday. Her lawyer, Michael Rosenstein, entered an innocent plea to the new charge on her behalf.

Love is expected back in court on April 5 for a motion by her lawyer to suppress evidence in the case.

Love, former lead singer of the group Hole and widow of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, has a new album, America’s Sweetheart.

She has appeared in such movies as The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon.