Posted by April MacIntyre Mar 3, 2011, 23:16 GMT
Charlie Sheen may be raking it in on Twitter, but one star is losing her fortune by mouthing off and being sued for it on the social media phenomenon.
Courtney Love - New York City, NY, USA © M Van Niedek / PR Photos
Rocker Courtney Love will pay dearly for Tweets that disparaged a designer online.
Love has settled the lawsuit brought against her by a fashion designer known as Dawn Simorangkir ("Boudior Queen"), which The Hollywood Reporter claims will cost Love about $430,000.
THR reports: "The first payment of cash is due today, followed by a series of payments to Simorangkir stretched out until 2014."
Simorangkir and Love argued over a $4000 payment for clothing, with the designer accusing Love of ruination, citing Love's series of alleged defamatory tweets posted during a 20 minute rant in 2009.
This is the first high-profile courtroom defamation suit based on Twitter content.
The fashion designer claimed that Love's high profile and influence as an entertainer and the power of Twitter to slander her as an "asswipe nasty lying hosebag thief" was enough ammunition to go to court.
"The amount of the settlement says it all," Simorangkir attorney Bryan Freedman tells THR. "Her reprehensible defamatory comments were completely false and $430,000 is quite a significant way to say I am sorry. One would hope that, given this disaster, restraint of pen, tongue and tweet would guide Ms. Love's future conduct."
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