Courtney Love fails to pay credit card debt, sued

Love’s failure to pay off debt
American Express credit card company filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Courtney Love in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that the former Hole singer owes more than $350,000 in unpaid charges and other fees on her AmEx Gold card.

In court papers, the financial services firm said it had suspended Love's AmEx Gold card after she "failed and refused" to pay off the debt on her Gold credit card.

The lawsuit claims that the rocker owes $352,059.67 in unpaid charges and fees on company’s credit card. The company is now seeking damages, attorney's fees and late charges on top of the unpaid balance.

Neither Love nor her spokesperson responded to the lawsuit as yet.

Love’s other legal troubles
This is not the first time the 44-year-old singer, who was married to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, is being slapped with a lawsuit.

Earlier this year, a fashion designer took Love to the court, accusing her of spreading lies about her on the micro-blogging Web site Twitter and causing 'irreparable damage' to her name and reputation.

Austin, Texas-based fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, who owns the Boudoir Queen clothing line, filed a libel and breach of contract lawsuit against the singer on March 26 of this year at the Los Angeles Superior Court, in which she alleged that Love made several "menacing and disturbing" comments about her on her Twitter and MySpace pages.

Simorangkir is now seeking compensatory and punitive damages, with the amount to be set at trial.

Last year, London and Co., a business management and accounting firm, also sued Love for allegedly failing to pay them a share of her profits when she sold a portion of Nirvana's publishing catalog, covering such Nirvana tunes as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Lithium" for $19.5 million.