Love Postpones Concert Tour Amid Legal Woes

06/15/2004 5:24 PM, Reuters


Singer-actress Courtney Love , facing mounting legal problems due to drug possession and assault charges in two states, has postponed a summer concert tour just days before it was due to begin, her representative said on Tuesday.

Late last week, Love, 39, turned herself in to authorities to face a felony assault charge stemming from an altercation with another woman at the Los Angeles home of her ex-boyfriend and onetime manager, Jim Barber, in April.

The performer was later released after posting $55,000 in bail and is scheduled to appear July 9 for an arraignment on the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.

Love's latest legal problem comes just weeks after she pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to being under the influence of cocaine when she was arrested last Oct. 2 by police who found her outside Barber's home breaking windows. The former singer for the band Hole faces separate drug possession charges in Beverly Hills and an unrelated assault charge in New York City.

Love's spokeswoman, Heidi Schaeffer, said the artist's tour had been postponed and that Love planned to reschedule the dates in the future. But Ticketmaster's Web site shows various show dates as canceled.

The 21-show tour was set to kick off on Friday in New Haven, Connecticut, and close on July 23 in Los Angeles.

Love also has been charged with assault in connection with a New York nightclub performance in which police said she threw a microphone stand into the audience, striking a man on the head. Hours before her arrest in Manhattan, Love bared her breasts during an appearance on the CBS "Late Show with David Letterman."

In the most recent case against her, Love is accused of assaulting a woman with a bottle and a metal flashlight on April 25 at Barber's home.

The singer's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.

Reuters/VNU