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LOS ANGELES: Courtney Love's 140-character Twitter rants against a fashion designer are costing her more than $430,000, an attorney says.

The singer has settled a lawsuit filed by Dawn Simorangkir, who sued the Hole frontwoman in March 2009 accusing her of making false statements about the designer and her past in a series of postings on the microblogging site Twitter and Ms. Love's Myspace blog.

The lawsuit contained several postings written under Ms. Love's former Twitter account, courtneylover79, that accused Ms. Simorangkir of theft and of having a criminal background.

The widow of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, Ms. Love has gained a reputation on the microblogging service Twitter, posting occasionally profane and sometimes nonsensical messages on a variety of topics. Several posts have lashed out at attorneys and other individuals who have drawn the musician's ire, with her Tweets coming in rapid succession and using every bit of the site's 140 character maximum per post.

The case had been scheduled to go to trial in February, and was expected to be the first trial in which a jury decided whether a celebrity's Twitter posts could be considered libel. — AP

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