Rocker Courtney Love was cleared in a twitter libel case.
The case against Love claimed she had committed libel by falsely suggesting in a 2010 tweet that Rhonda Holmes had been “bought off”.
Love’s 2010 tweet read: “I was devastated when Rhonda J Holmes Esq of San Diego was bought off”.
Jurors found that Love’s tweet included false information, but the singer did not know it was not true.
The verdict was returned by the Los Angeles County Superior Court jury after about four hours of deliberations, said Holmes’s lawyer Mitchell Langberg.
It is thought to be the first high-profile case of an alleged libel on Twitter going to trial in the US.
Love had hired Holmes to file a fraud case against the estate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain, but the relationship turned sour.
During the eight-day case, Holmes contended that she was sacked by Love and that the tweet and other statements made about her had caused her harm.
Read more about her case here
Source: Reuters
