Love Is Ordered Back to Court to Face Charges

Troubled rock musician Courtney Love on Wednesday was ordered to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom to face charges she violated probation during an alleged drug incident last month at a Hollywood hotel.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand S. Rubin ordered Love to appear in court Aug. 19 after prosecutors in court papers said the singer was allegedly under the influence of a controlled substance. Deputy Dist. Atty. Gina Satriano later confirmed that the allegation stemmed from events July 21 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Love received three years’ probation in Rubin’s court in February after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. The musician allegedly threw a liquor bottle at a 32-year-old woman she found sleeping on the sofa of her former boyfriend’s home.

Love is also on probation in a 2003 felony drug possession case. She was arrested for allegedly breaking windows in a Wilshire-area home, and eventually pleaded guilty to illegal possession of the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone. Probation violation proceedings in both cases will be consolidated before Rubin.

In the latest incident, Love was attending an entertainment industry party for a jeans company when her publicist said she felt faint and went outside for air. A friend called an ambulance “for precaution,” the publicist said, and Love was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

An LAPD spokeswoman initially told The Times that “Courtney Love overdosed at the Roosevelt and was transported to Cedars-Sinai hospital around midnight.”

Later in the day, however, police declined further comment and identified the victim only as “Courtney L.”

Rubin asked Love’s drug counselor for progress reports from the alcohol and drug addiction programs that she was required to attend under the terms of her probation.

District attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said the Hollywood Roosevelt case would be referred to the city attorney for a possible filing. Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney’s office, said lawyers were reviewing the results of a preliminary inquiry.

Love, 41, was not required to be in court Wednesday. Attorney Michael Rosenstein, who is representing her, said he might have something to say on the case next week.

Love is the former lead singer of the band Hole and the widow of Nirvana band leader Kurt Cobain, who killed himself in 1994 after a long battle with heroin addiction.

It’s unclear how Love’s ongoing legal troubles will affect custody of her daughter with Cobain. Love had been restricted to court-supervised visits with her child, but this year regained full custody of Frances Bean Cobain.