Love pleads guilty

Rocker Courtney Love pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct yesterday for hitting a club-goer on the head with a microphone stand during a performance.

New York's Manhattan Criminal Court judge Melissa Jackson granted the former Hole frontwoman a conditional discharge, which means her case will be sealed after one year if she pays the victim $2,336 (€1,900) to cover medical expenses, joins a drug treatment programme and does not commit any other crimes.

If Love violates the conditions, she could face 15 days in jail.

Love said after the hearing: "I just wanted it to be over."

The case stems from an incident in March, when Love hit Gregory Burgett with a microphone stand as he watched her show at a Manhattan nightclub.

Burgett needed three staples in his head to close the wound, and Love was arrested on misdemeanour charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault. Those charges were reduced to one charge of disorderly conduct.