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Courtney Love Progressing "Well"
11/18/2005 8:52 PM, E! Online
Charlie Amter
Courtney Love may no longer be America's Sweetheart, but one
California judge seems smitten by the rocker.
Love got a gold
star from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin at a progress
report hearing on Friday. Rand agreed to let Love loose from her
court-ordered drug rehab stay, allowing her instead to serve out the
remainder of her 180-day sentence in a less strict outpatient program.
"You're doing really well," Rubin told the Hole frontwoman.
"I'm really pleased with the reports. I certainly hope you keep up the
good progress."
Although Love will be now have more freedom to
finish up her sentence for violating probation in three different
criminal cases, she will still be under watchful eyes.
Rubin
ordered the 41-year-old to submit to random, twice-weekly checks for
drugs and alcohol.
Love's get-out-of-rehab pass also means
she must avoid bars or nightclubs for the duration of her sentence and
continue therapy. She can leave home only under "special circumstances,"
such as seeing her probation officer or necessary visits to her doctor,
per Rubin.
The judge also extended her probation to March 2007
and set a curfew for the former grunge goddess--10 p.m.
Despite all the conditions, Love's discharge from the Pasadena-based
Las Encinas pleased her attorney, Howard Weitzman.
"She is
moving forward and taking the process very seriously," he told Los
Angeles' City News Service. "She hopes this is the beginning of the next
chapter in her life."
And how.
Love's
sobriety-challenged ways have wreaked havoc on her career and bank
account.
She drew Rubin's ire in August when she admitted in
court to relapsing at a Hollywood hotel in July. Rubin found her in
violation of probation on two misdemeanor drug convictions and one
misdemeanor assault case and ordered her to immediately check into rehab
program.
At the same time, the woman Love whacked with a
whiskey bottle in the latter case launched a lawsuit against the
volatile singer. "We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full
financial responsibility for her assault," plaintiff's attorney Gloria
Allred said upon filing the suit.
And last month, a Seattle
law firm hit Love with a $340,000 lawsuit for unpaid legal fees.
Love is due back in court Jan. 20 for another progress report.
Hole fans, meanwhile, are hoping Rubin is still fond of Love by
then, so the rocker can get back in the studio.
Her record
company, EMI, recently posted web advertisements on Craigslist looking
for a new band member who can hang with the erratic rocker.
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