Love sued for $1 million

Last Modified: 24 Jul 2008
Source: ITN

Courtney Love has been hit with a $1 million lawsuit for allegedly failing to share the profits from a Nirvana sale.

Los Angeles-based London & Co claims the former Hole singer broke an oral contract to share five per cent of any of her earnings or those from her company, The End of Music.

Love, the widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, sold a portion of her rights to the band's publishing catalogue in 2006.

However, it was unclear whether the business and management accounting firm is claiming a share of $975,000 (£489,277) from that deal.

The five-page lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday claims she sold a portion of his share of Nirvana's publishing catalogue for $19.5 million (£9.8 million).

Love controlled most of the rights to Cobain and Nirvana's work after his suicide in 1994.

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