COURTNEY LOVE "DRIVEN OUT OF LA"

Rocker Courtney Love has moved back to New York, claiming she has been hounded out of Los Angeles by manipulative employees.
The 45-year-old widow of grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain claims her staff hired gun-waving off-duty policemen to raid her Malibu home trying to take her husband's fortune.
She told the New York Daily News the officers “tried to take me to the loony bin.”
Love, who had a well-publicised meltdown in 2002 and 2003 and lost custody of her daughter, Frances Bean, now 17, amid court cases for drugs and assault, explained: “A flood of guys, at least 10, came to my house.
“They said there was an ambulance outside, even though we never saw one. I tried to be charming.
“But one of the guys points a gun at mean. My daughter, Frances, ran and hid under the house.”
She said the situation was handled by her security guards.
Adam DelMonte and Michael Kenworthy of security firm AC Digital Services corroborated her story, saying they recorded the “blitz” on security cameras.
In a letter they wrote: “These imposters then flipped the situation on Mrs Cobain and tried to strong-arm her and scare her into feeling she needed to hire them for protection.
“Fortunately we were able to get them out of her life.”
They also said they found evidence that Love's staff had bugged her computer and phone and tried to divert her funds “to senior citizen housing developments and property all throughout the United States.
“Both her camera and microphone on her cell phone were bugged at one point and her computer is so riddled with viruses that anyone cold hack in.”
Love said she reported the incidents to the police but said: “Nobody calls me back.”
She claimed on of her money managers wanted to shut her up and said tearfully: “I got chased out of my own bleeping town.”
The Hole frontwoman, who is working on a new album, has now hired lawyer Keith Fink, who claims her previous lawyers and managers claimed excessive commissions on sales of shares.
He said: “I believe there's validity in Ms Love's allegations.”
In 2008 Love claimed identity thieves had stolen her, Cobain's and Frances' social security numbers in an elaborate identity fraud plot involving millions of dollars in a credit card and property scam.
She reported it to police – and claimed that Scotland Yard was also involved – but at the time police were said to have dismissed her claims as imaginary.
Love, whose husband committed suicide in 1994, said she has reported the latest incident to New York Attorney General Mario Cuomo, but fears she will be ignored because of her reputation.
“My biggest problem is that I'm Courtney Love,” she said.