Courtney Love Charged With Felony Assault

JUNE 9--Courtney Love has been charged with felony assault for allegedly battering a fellow female rock singer with a liquor bottle and metal flashlight during an April attack at the same Los Angeles home where the troubled performer was arrested last October. According to the below June 2 criminal complaint--which charges Love with assault with a deadly weapon--the performer attacked Kristin King, a 28-year-old singer/guitarist who fronts an L.A. rock trio. King, pictured at right, is a singer/guitarist who is a favorite of Eric Erlandson, the 39-year-old Love's former guitar man in the band Hole. A spokesperson for the L.A. district attorney said the April 25 confrontation occurred at the home of Jim Barber, Love's ex-boyfriend (that's where she was arrested last fall for breaking windows, the first of several busts involving drugs and smacking people). According to a TSG source familiar with details of the incident, Love arrived at Barber's home that morning and, once inside, began throttling the music producer. King, who does not know Love and was sleeping on a living room couch when the melee started, got injured when Love picked up a nearby bottle of booze and crowned her with it. It is unclear when Love will appear in Superior Court to answer the latest charge, which carried a recommended bail of $55,000. (5 pages)

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