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By Zachary Swickey

Unfortunately, rocker Courtney Love is in the news again. We say unfortunately because Love consistently proves the old adage “all publicity is good publicity” to be not quite true.

This time around, Love’s former personal assistant is suing her over unpaid salary and for making multiple inappropriate requests. The assistant, Jessica Labrie, filed the wrongful termination, wage and breach of contract lawsuit in Los Angeles earlier this week. The suit states that after working for Love for about a year between 2010-11, Labrie was abruptly fired after complaining that she was owed thousands of dollars in unpaid salary and business-related expenses. She also says she refused to “commit fraudulent, unlawful and unethical acts” for Love.

TMZ reports that Love requested Labrie find her a computer hacker to change records to businesses she owned (or at least believed she owned). The lawsuit states that Labrie was working 60 hours a week for Love and suffered from headaches, insomnia and other medical conditions as a result of Love’s behavior.

Labrie, as TMZ is quick to point out, is also shopping a tell-all book about Love's antics, tentatively titled “Get Me a Xanax.”

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By Zachary Swickey

The craziness that is Courtney Love has set her sights on a new and unlikely target: Kermit the Frog.

Apparently, Love is more than unhappy with the Muppet posse’s rendition of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” that was used in their new 2011 movie without her “permission” – saying it “raped” the memory of her late husband.

Love – who was nearly evicted from her apartment last December – continues to be under the false assumption that she has sole power to approve or deny any use of Nirvana music for commercial purposes, and she claims she never gave any companies permission for the Muppets to cover the song.

However, TMZ reports that Love sold half of her interest in Cobain’s music to a company under the name Primary Wave Music (it was reported earlier that she'd sold only a 25 percent stake).

Love will be even angrier when she discovers that Primary Wave got permission from the two surviving members of Nirvana – Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (two guys she hasn’t exactly gotten along with in the past) – with Grohl even making a cameo appearance in the flick.

Despite Love’s chagrin, she’s still raking in the dough; she and her daughter, Frances Bean, will get a cut of the song’s profits.

Last fall, Love inked a book deal with William Morrow – an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers to “set the record straight” with her memoirs, which will surely make for a pretty wild read.

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Courtney Love's relationship with her daughter Frances Bean Cobain has long been strained, to say the very least, but now previously sealed documents relating to Frances Bean's 2009 restraining order against the Hole singer detail a sad scene leading to their eventual estrangement.

The Fix obtained Frances Bean's deposition in the '09 filing and it contains some pretty troubling details about Love, including allegations that she accidentally killed her daughter's cat and dog in startling ways.

In her deposition, Frances alleges her cat died after being crushed "in piles of Etsy fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash and other possessions" and that her dog died after ingesting pills belonging to Love. Frances went on to describe Love's prescription pill use in detail, saying, "She basically exists now on Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes," adding, "She [Love] rarely eats ... She often falls asleep in her bed while she is smoking, and I am constantly worried that she will start a fire (which she has done at least three times) that will threaten our lives."

Yikes!

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By Zachary Swickey

Bats**t crazy Courtney Love moment no. 172: Courtney jacks photographer David LaChapelle’s car outside the Soho House in the Meatpacking district of New York City. Well sort of…

According to the New York Post, Love swooped the ride “with permission” to visit director Brett Ratner’s house and promised LaChappelle she would return so they could attend his exhibition at the classy Lever House. Surprise, surprise, Love was a no-show, instead she stayed at Ratner’s through the night and probably watched the sun come up while she begged for a role in Rush Hour 4 (we made that last part up).

Heck, even the Soho House ratted her out when a rep commented on the debacle, saying, “Courtney did take his car. David was flipping out and going crazy at the front desk that Courtney stole his car.”

The Post even rang up Ratner for comment. “Courtney and David are best friends,” he said. “We were all supposed to go to the Lever House together, but I was too tired.”

Sounds like just another day in the life of Love and her celeb companions. This is child’s play compared to past antics of the loudest and proudest female in rock music. Here are the top five Courtney moments that would even put Amy Winehouse to shame. Read More...

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