“You shouldn’t believe something just because a lawyer wrote it down,” says Kevin Federline’s family lawyer as a tip to the paparazzi.
That said, Sam Lutfi offers his most recent allegations against Britney Spears and her family in pursuit of records he believes will support his case against Jamie, Lynne and Britney Spears.
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Lead singer of the US rock band Nirvana Kurt Cobain is shown in a 1993 file photo. (AP Photo/Mark J.Terrill)
A settlement was reached yesterday in a two-year lawsuit against Courtney Love for breach of contract in a case that involved unpaid commissions from the sale of a portion of the writer’s share of the Nirvana catalog in mid-2007.
London and Company, an accounting and business management services firm that provides services to clients in the entertainment and other industries, sued Love and The End of Music on July 22, 2008. The firm claimed they were entitled to a five percent commission on $19,500,000 generated from the sale of the catalog and that Love never paid them their share of $975,000.
Lawyers for the parties did not disclose the terms of the settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court.
“The case is settled and it’s all for the good,” says Robert G. Wilson a partner of Gordon Kemper who represents London and Company.
Courtney Love of Hole performs live at The 2010 KROQ Weenie Roast on June 5, 2010, Irvine, Calif. (AP Photo/Katy Winn)
I’m not a member of Courtney Love’s Twit Army.
NBC News came up with the idea of a Twit Army in June after seeing a flurry of activity between Fair News Spears (that’s me), Love and various Love fans on Twitter.
Because of recent court filings in the ongoing litigation involving Love, her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, and a trustee over Cobain’s trust fund, I feel I need to make that clear.
“Ms. Love has engaged in a new and troubling campaign to publicize her daughter’s private matters and to malign LNTTC (Laird Norton Tyee Trust Company) in public. Ms. Love has disclosed in a public manner documents regarding her daughter’s Trust. These actions provide further demonstration of why Ms. Love should be removed as Advisory Trustee of her daughter’s trust and replaced with a more responsible individual,” said Mathew Harrington, June 22 in a declaration filed in King County Superior Court, Seattle.
Due to rising site traffic courtesy of Courtney Love’s Twitter posts over the weekend I am posting this article anew. It won’t answer all of your questions but you will be informed as to the upcoming trial and know that a trustee involved in France Bean Cobain’s trust fund has been withholding information from Courtney since early 2009: this activity violates a legal agreement.
By Carmela Kelly, News Editor, Puma Press, May 2010
Frances Bean Cobain, the sole child of Kurt and Courtney Love Cobain, is at the center of a mother- daughter conflict involving millions of dollars in lost trust fund money, violence, private meetings and “super lawyers” from both California and Washington states.
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| Courtney Love, right, is joined by daughter Frances Bean Cobain before boarding the USS John C. Stennis for the premiere of Disney’s film “Pearl Harbor” in Hawaii, May 21, 2001. |
Love lost legal custody of her 17-year-old daughter on Dec. 11 for undisclosed reasons. Since then, Frances has been under the co-guardianship of Kurt’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, and his sister, Kimberly Dawn Cobain. In January, in a separate matter from the guardianship, the trustee over Frances’ trust fund, filed to remove Love from her daughter’s trust fund and replace her with O’Connor .
The trust fund litigation is separate from the Los Angeles-based guardianship
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Courtney Love’s former attorney, Keith A. Fink, hurt her when he represented her between April and early November 2009 through negligence and misleading the public in talking to TMZ.
Courtney Love plays at SXSW Music Festival, March 19, in Austin, TX. (Jonathan Mehring/Blixah, AP Images)
Court documents show that of five known cases entered against Love during Fink’s seven to eight months as her lawyer, he allowed 80 percent of them to slide into default judgment against her.
Courtney Love, of Hole, plays at SXSW Music Festival Friday, March 19th in Austin, Texas. (Jonathan Mehring/Blixah for AP Images)
“From Courtney’s perspective he is not her friend. He represented her for a period of time. She was unhappy and terminated him. She was not adequately represented. She wants nothing to do with him,” says one of Love’s current attorneys Michael J. Niborski, Pryor Cashman.
“At some point we had to contact him and tell him to stop representing her,” he says.
Courtney Love arrives for the 2009 Elle Style Awards at Big Sky studios in north London on Feb. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan) By permission of the Puma Press.
Update: Courtney Love Cobain retweeted this story today. She offered no corrections or additional comments. Be sure to check out Misc. Court Docs. There’s a document at the top for you Love fans.
Update II: Feb. 19. Love says Judge Mitchell Beckloff recused himself but she waived it.
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A new judge has been assigned to the guardianship matter of Frances Bean Cobain and a related temporary restraining order against her mother, Courtney Love.
The case was transferred to Judge Mitchell Beckloff on Jan. 22 in Los Angeles County.
Commissioner Reva Goetz was disqualified by a California Code of Civil Procedure Section 170.6 challenge, said Liz Martinez, a public affairs office representative.
Section 170.6 provides that no judge, commissioner or referee shall try any civil or criminal matter when it is established that there is prejudice against any party, attorney or the interest of any party or attorney appearing in the action or proceeding, says the state’s Web site.
The challenge may have been based in connection to Britney and Jamie Spears.
Hi, this is still a blog right? Happy holidays then.
I wrote the following comment on Courtney Love Cobain’s Facebook wall. There had been some confusion there between her fans and those who follow Britney Spears. I thought about it later and realized that not all readers may know about the twist in the case of Courtney losing legal control over her daughter and later also receiving a temporary restraining order.
Suffice. The lawyers involved in Courtney’s case are the same lawyers who work for Jamie Spears and the conservatorship. The judge is also the same as documents from TMZ reveal.
On to the post:
I have a few more minutes here and then I am going outside, but I thought to explain to those unfamiliar with Britney Spears’conservatorship case who some of the players are. If you open the documents through the TMZ link posted two hours ago, you will see attorneys Geraldine Wyle, Jeryll S. Cohen, and the Hon. Reva Goetz.
Google any of those names plus Spears and conservatorship and you are sure to find them in connection. Wyle and Cohen both work for Jamie Spears and I believe they were involved from the beginning of the conservatorship in Feb. 2008.
TMZ knows that as does the AP and any other news organization that covers courtroom news or celebrity gossip but none of them are saying it. TMZ only shows the document that is six pages but they do not help readers make the connection back to Jamie Spears and the conservatorship. One clearly also sees the Hon. Reva Goetz. She’s the one who ruled on Feb. 4, 2008 that based on the court appointed attorney’s meeting with Britney at UCLA that she did not understand legal proceedings and lacked capacity to hire her own lawyer. A simple search of journalist Linda Deutsch and capacity should bring up all that drama that also involved Adam Streisand who is now working with the Jackson family. … See More
I do believe that the connection between Courtney Love Cobain and Jamie Spears is fascinating and that it was irresponsible for the media to omit it (hide? conceal?) and distract us instead with tales of clothing designers and lawsuits based on Twitter. And. That they continue to. I don’t know if Courtney will keep any of this info up but hopefully at least some of you will see what is happening and be less confused. Happy holidays.
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Author’s note: I posted this and other information more specific to Courtney’s case and media treatment on her Facebook account, if interested. She is listed under Courtney Love Cobain and if you follow her as a fan you may learn more of her story and how strangely it is connected back to Britney Spears. For those who don’t know, Courtney claimed over the Thanksgiving holiday that Jamie molested his daughter.
Lou Taylor, a Spears’family spokesperson has not directly refuted the claim. Instead she was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying, “”We’re not commenting on Courtney Love, or any aliens who might come to Earth to impregnate people.”
Courtney responded, after seeing the story on her Facebook account, “I went to Sting and Trudys “Twin Spirits” wonderful Schullman letters event and sat with my dearest friend Stipe (Michael) tonight, not that the names matter, but I didn’t see ONE alien impregnating ANYONE!” (some punctuation added by Fair News Spears.)
Update: More of Love Cobain’s side of the story. Like Britney and the imposed conservatorship no prior notice was given to Courtney Love as Wyle took action to remove her daughter from her life. http://www.spinner.com/2009/12/22/courtney-love-planned-christmas-for-daughter-before-custody-hear/
