Ritzy Condo Socks Courtney Love With 18K Lien

APRIL 22--Claiming that Courtney Love has not paid common charges since last September, the managers of a swanky Manhattan condominium last month filed a lien against the troubled singer. Love owes nearly $18,000 in common charges, late fees, and other costs, according to the below notice of lien recorded March 31 with New York City's Department of Finance. The 39-year-old performer paid $2.64 million in March 2001 for her 4123-square-foot apartment in the Soho building where Lenny Kravitz owns a penthouse (the deed is in the name of a Love corporation, F.B. Heather Trust). The lien was recorded following Love's recent New York spree, during which she was spotted, guitar in hand, sitting on her condo's window ledge and yelling at passerby. In a new Blender magazine interview, Love claimed to have been swindled out of $40 million, while a former business associate estimated that she is $4 million in debt. (3 pages)