Is it possible that Courtney Love won’t be home – much less have a home – for Christmas? Maybe! The troubled singer may be evicted from her New York house after being accused of wrecking the home and owing over $50,000 in back rent.
The NY Post reports that Love has been renting the place for the last 10 months from the town home’s owner, Donna Lyons. The rent is a whopping $27,000/mo. Lyons claims that Love ruined the house by painting and wallpapering over hand finished walls. She says:
“It was decorated by the previous owner, interior designer Steven Gambrel. One of the requirements of the lease is that nothing should be done to the interiors.
Lyons, who is based in Chicago, says she didn’t know of the changes until she wanted to sell the town house and had photos taken for a brochure.
They sent me the brochure and I said, ‘This can’t be my property.’ I came to New York to see it and I was horrified by what she had done. The walls that had been hand-painted and glazed were ruined, covered in damask wallpaper and ice-blue paint.”
She estimates that Courtney’s tacky redecoration could cost up to $100,000 to repair. A court date has been set for December 21 in Manhattan’s civil court.