Courtney Love Settles the Last of Her Nirvana Money Disputes

BY RICK ANDERSON, Seattle Weekly

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“I

did not fuck you,” was how Courtney Love responded when told by

her Seattle attorneys that she owed them up to $340,000 plus

interest. That was the balance due on legal fees attorney

Katherine Hendricks and O.Yale Lewis say Love incurred in a 2002

lawsuit against former members of her late husband’s band, Nirvana,

from which she ultimately earned at least $9 million.

But

the troubled rocker and widow of Kurt Cobain has now agreed to settle

the attorneys’ tab for an undisclosed amount, according to King

County Superior Court records. The settlement, effective Monday,

Sept. 17, apparently ends a three-year claim by Hendricks and Lewis,

who alleged Love breached their legal-services contract. Hendricks

would not discuss details of the settlement or confirm whether Love

had paid her debt on time, as she agreed to do in an Aug. 28

settlement report. A trial had been set to begin on Wednesday.</

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Court records indicate Love paid the Hendricks & Lewis firm

$1.15 million to represent her in the battle with Nirvana’s two

surviving members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. But the attorneys

claimed she still owed $341,000, plus as much as $200,000 in interest

accrued over five years.