Dawn Simorangkir filed a lawsuit against Love in January, claiming that Love launched a 20-minute Twitter rampage against the designer in 2009, including posts that referred to Simorangkir as a “drug-pushing prostitute” and an “asswipe nasty lying hosebag thief”.
The former Hole singer argued her comments were protected as free speech and that Simorangkir could not prove how the tweets were damaging to her.
Love and Simorangkir had apparently been feuding because Love owed the designer money for clothes. Instead of paying, Love went on several social media sites and posted the unflattering words about Simorangkir.
“The amount of the settlement says it all,” Simorangkir’s lawyer Bryan Freedman told the Hollywood Reporter.
“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,” he added.
Simorangkir was initially seeking millions of dollars in damage in the ground-breaking case, one of the first to examine whether online social media can be held to the same libel standards as traditional news.
Love’s attorney James Janowitz told The Reporter that the sum would be handed over in a series of payments over the next three years.
He said Simorangkir had asked for “vastly more”, describing the settlement as modest.
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Courtney Love To Pay Over $400,000 To Settle Twitter Defamation Lawsuit