--- description: A biographer says she owes him $200,000 title: Courtney Love Is Getting Sued by the Co-Writer of Her Memoir image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c339c91682e5e5/6987ed7655a8590ab2a89d48/courtney-love.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Why Courtney Love Is Getting Sued by the Co-Writer of Her Memoir by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2015 3:18 PM CUT  Courtney Love arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. Courtney Love arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.Anthony Harvey—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2015 3:18 PM CUT Writing a memoir can be a savvy decision for celebrities in the later stages of their careers, but stars with the writing chops of Patti Smith (whose _Just Kids_ won the National Book Award for Nonfiction) are diamonds in the rough—so it’s common for musicians, actors and others to hire a co-writer or ghost-writer to complete the project. But when Courtney Love teamed up with Anthony Bozza to help her write her memoir, things didn’t quite work out as planned: Bozza has filed a lawsuit asking the singer for $200,000 in damages. He claims he received only $100,000, half of the amount they agreed upon in 2010, and seeks further funds for potential royalties, the [New York _Times_ reports](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/courtney-love-is-sued-by-co-writer-of-her-memoir/?partner=rss&emc=rss "undefined"). Love herself received $400,000 of a $1.2 million advance, according to the lawsuit. The memoir now seems to be stuck in limbo: it was originally due for a 2012 publish date. That was pushed to 2014 when the book wasn’t ready, then delayed again. Bozza’s lawyer says in the suit that Love refused to send the manuscript to the publisher, HarperCollins imprint William Morrow, even though he delivered it to her in early 2014\. Bozza, who has previously worked on memoirs with the likes of Tracy Morgan and Wyclef Jean, claims that Love later texted him saying she was working on fixes to the book with another author. Neither Love nor HarperCollins commented on the suit to the _Times._ If the book manages to overcome the legal and literary challenges, it’s sure to spark interest among fans of Love and her late husband, Kurt Cobain, looking for more details on their iconic marriage. The memoir is tentatively titled after a lyric from her band Hole’s song “Doll Parts,” _Girl With the Most Cake_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839942/courtney-love-memoir-lawsuit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839942/courtney-love-memoir-lawsuit/"},"headline":"Here's Why Courtney Love Is Getting Sued by the Co-Writer of Her Memoir","datePublished":"2015-04-29T15:18:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:46:41.535Z","description":"A biographer says she owes him $200,000","url":"https://time.com/3839942/courtney-love-memoir-lawsuit/","keywords":["Books","Memoir","Lawsuit","Kurt Cobain"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c339c91682e5e5/6987ed7655a8590ab2a89d48/courtney-love.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c339c91682e5e5/6987ed7655a8590ab2a89d48/courtney-love.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","caption":"2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","creditText":"Anthony Harvey—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839942/courtney-love-memoir-lawsuit/","name":"Here's Why Courtney Love Is Getting Sued by the Co-Writer of Her Memoir"}}]}] ```