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Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 03:06 AM

Fugitive rocker Courtney Love has been admitted to a private New York hospital after being released from a weekend stay at a public medical facility in Manhattan, her criminal defense lawyer told Reuters on Tuesday.
Los Angeles-based attorney Michael Rosenstein said, however, that he had no information on the nature of Love's condition or the type of hospital where she was currently a patient. He said that a warrant for her arrest, issued by a Los Angeles judge last Friday when Love skipped a hearing in a felony assault case, remained in effect but she was still not in custody. A spokeswoman for the L.A. County District Attorney's Office said prosecutors had no information on her whereabouts. Earlier Tuesday, Love's civil attorney, Robert Ring, said during an unrelated Santa Monica court hearing that a legal guardian had been appointed for the singer and that she was in an East Coast "institution." Ring did not elaborate except to describe Love as "a troubled rock star" in a hearing over a lawsuit alleging that she owes money to another law firm that previously represented her. Ring declined further comment on the matter when contacted later by telephone. A Los Angeles judge last Friday issued an arrest warrant for Love, 40, after she failed to appear for an arraignment on a felony assault charge stemming from an altercation in April. Rosenstein told the judge she was in New York and had been confused about whether her presence was required for the proceeding. Hours later, Rosenstein confirmed to Reuters and other media that Love had been admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan for treatment of an unspecified gynecological condition. A source close to the performer told Reuters that Love had been discharged from Bellevue on Monday. Widely published photographs this week showed the singer, visibly distraught and dressed in a camisole, being carried on a stretcher in handcuffs from her Manhattan apartment by paramedics on Friday. Media accounts quoted neighbors has saying Love had spent much of the previous week roaming local streets, asking strangers for cigarettes, peering suspiciously into parked cars and claiming she was being followed. The reports of erratic behavior follow mounting legal problems. In May, Love pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of being under the influence of cocaine, and she was scheduled to appear later this week for a sentencing hearing in that case. She faces separate drug possession charges in Beverly Hills and a reckless endangerment charge in New York City.

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