Despite not having even reached her twentieth birthday, Frances Bean Cobain has suffered a life in the spotlight as the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and troubled Hole singer and occasional actress Courtney Love. Love’s frequent drug use, erratic behaviour and ill-advised comments in the press have eclipsed her professional career over recent years, causing Frances Bean’s paternal grandparents to gain temporary guardianship in 2009, with a judge issuing a restraining order towards Love soon afterwards.
In June 2010, Love blasted her former lawyers Gordon & Holmes on Twitter, claiming “I was fucking devastated when Rhonda J Holmes Esq of San Diego was bought off (sic).” In an interview with a website around the same time Love added, “I’ve been hiring and firing lawyers to help me with this.” Rhonda Holmes and her law firm filed a lawsuit against Love for defamation online, and the latest update regarding the case is that Gordon & Holmes have served a deposition subpoena against Cobain, following comments that her daughter has made regarding her mother’s recent behaviour.
According the The Hollywood Reporter; “The subpoena triggered angry letters back and forth between Cobain’s legal counsel and Frederic Gordon, Holmes’ law partner… Cobain, 19, insists she knows nothing relevant to Holmes’ defamation lawsuit against Love. Cobain says that in 2010, when Love tweeted about Gordon, she was in the custody of her grandmother and aunt and had no contact with her mother or any knowledge about the tweets in question. She now is seeking a protective order against the deposition and looking to sanction Gordon & Holmes… Love is on the verge of becoming the first celebrity to stand trial in the U.S. for statements made on Twitter. This actually is the second time she’s been sued over an alleged defamatory tweet. The first lawsuit, brought by a fashion designer, promised to explore the boundaries of fact versus opinion in a casual setting like Twitter and what damages would look like when millions of people are exposed to a possibly libelous comment. On the eve of trial, the case settled.”
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