Love in hospital after court no-show

Courtney Love has been hospitalised with what reports say is not a drug-related illness.

An arrest warrant was issued for the troubled Hole front woman after she failed to appear in court for arraignment on an assault charge.

Love was in New York City and was confused about whether she was required to be in the Los Angeles courtroom, defence lawyer Michael Rosenstein said yesterday.

The court decided there was no excuse for her failure to appear and she forfeited her $55,000 (€44,000) bail. The judge set a new bail of $150,000 (€121,000).

Love, former lead singer of the band Hole, has coast-to-coast legal troubles and has had to reschedule a summer tour to support her new album, America’s Sweetheart.

Last month she was scolded by a judge when she showed up more than five hours late to a Manhattan court for a hearing on charges of assault and reckless endangerment for allegedly hitting a fan with a microphone stand at a nightclub in March.

Love was supposed to have been arraigned in Los Angeles on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly attacking a 32-year-old woman with a liquor bottle.

The widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, also was charged in two cases stemming from encounters with police on one night last October.

She is also facing a felony case in Beverly Hills Superior Court for alleged illegal possession of prescription painkillers. Love allegedly gave officers a small bag of pills after they responded to a call from her home hours after her initial October arrest.