Courtney Love’s ghostwriter is suing her. More than a year after he delivered a manuscript for her memoir, Anthony Bozza says he has still not been paid in full for his work, which remains unpublished.
Bozza handed in a 123,375 word manuscript in January 2014, for which he was paid $100,000. However, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in April last year, Love said she had rejected Bozza’s version of her life. “It’s like me jacked on coffee and sugar in a really bad mood,” she said.
Bozza’s lawsuit, filed in the federal district court for the southern district of New York, argues that he is due an additional $200,000 (£130,000) in damages, having been promised a minimum payment of that amount from Love’s publishing advance, as well as potential royalties from sales. His suit says Love has already received $400,000 of a $1.2m advance from the HarperCollins imprint William Morrow. Bozza’s lawer said Love would have received more of her advance had she handed in the manuscript for Girl With the Most Cake.
Love’s memoir had originally been scheduled for publication in autumn 2012. However, according to Bozza’s lawsuit it was delayed by the musician’s behaviour. “Love’s frequent unexplained absences meant that she did not make herself reasonably available to Bozza for months at a time,” it says.
In the meantime, some of Love’s life story has become clearer with the release of the documentary Cobain: Montage of Heck, which contains a large amount of hitherto unseen footage of Love and Kurt Cobain.
