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Courtney Love is reported to have sobbed in court when asked about the 'mishandled' legacy of her late husband Kurt Cobain during her ongoing defamation trial.
The Hole star and Nirvana frontman's widow stands accused by attorney Rhonda Holmes of sending defamatory Tweets.
The case revolves around a suit filed after the grunge icon tweeted an accusation that her former attorney, Rhonda J. Holmes, had been 'bought off'. Love maintains that she’d meant the posting to be sent privately as a direct message on the site, and that she deleted the tweet a few minutes later as soon as she realised her mistake.
Now in the fourth day of the trial, Spin reports that Love wept in the court while Canadian businessman Phillip Gross was testifying. He was talking about a lawsuit he’d initiated against one of Cobain’s former guitar techs, who claimed to have the largest collection of the grunge icon's guitars. The notion of Cobain's legacy being mishandled and misrepresented is said to have made Love visibly sob.
Gross told the court that he reached out to Love's former attorney Holmes, but never received a response. Gross's Cylena Smith later agreed, adding: "It was weird. [Holmes] was so thankful for this information. She said, 'I'll pass this on to my client right away. I'll be in touch with you.' But we never heard from her again."
The argument was to back up Love's claim that Holmes had 'disappeared', leading her to believe that the outside agent had interfered with Holmes and that perhaps she'd been "bought off."
Holmes' sister Michele Leann Dempsey also took to the stand to add that her sibling's "lifelong goal and dream" was to be a lawyer, and after Love's Tweet, Holmes was "very sad, she was hurt, she was concerned, and she didn't really know how to handle it."
Holmes' husband Jeff Jenco also told the court: "Nothing in this world is more important to her [Holmes] than that [being an attorney]."
Speaking about life after Love's defamatory Tweet, Jenco added: “I noticed her having a lot more tension—and she was anxious and pre-occupied. It was very bothersome to her the comments that had been made."
The trial continues.
