Courtney Love’s tweets lead to landmark court battle
The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes.
So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of insults at the designer known as the “Boudoir Queen”. Love’s tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via re-tweets), announced that Simorangkir was a drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery who lost custody of her own child and capitalised on Love’s fame before stealing from her. !
