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Courtney Love is being sued by a jewellery firm over claims she failed to return nearly $114,000 worth of borrowed gems.

In a lawsuit filed by Jacob & Co yesterday, November 22, 2010, it is alleged the singer borrowed two white gold and diamond chains, a white gold, floral-designed mesh bracelet and a pair of white gold and diamond hoop earrings, and returned only the bracelet.

The jewellery firm – popular with several celebrities, including Madonna, Justin Timberlake and David Beckham – claims the singer told them she had lost the other borrowed items.

According to the suit, “Love has failed to return the Chains or the Earrings, despite repeated demand and her detention and retention of the Chains and Earrings are wrong.”

The firm’s lawyer Jeffrey Klarsfeld said their agreement with the 46-year-old rock singer made clear that she would be responsible for the gems “regardless of loss or damage”.

She was also caught up in other legal battles this year.

Courtney Love – as the widow of Nirvana frotnman Kurt Cobain – inherited most of the band’s publishing rights when he died in 1994.

She was involved in a legal battle with management company London and Co a couple of years ago, when she was sued for $1 million, claiming she failed to share her earnings from selling a part of the rights, which is estimated to have netted her $20 million.

However, earlier this year, London and Co revealed to a Los Angeles court the case had been settled. The agreement was also confirmed by Courtney’s lawyer, James Janowitz.

Charlie Sheen filed a lawsuit Monday for extortion and a couple of other counts against the adult star who claims he tried to choke her in a Manhattan hotel last month.

Sheen alleges in the lawsuit that Christina Walsh, aka Capri Anderson, asked $1 million from him to keep quiet and that she also works as a prostitute.

Sheen’s attorney Marty Singer says Walsh engaged in “an attempted shakedown and extortion of the internationally known actor and celebrity Charlie Sheen.”

Also adding that “Charlie is not a litigious person however on this matter he decided he needed to put his foot down based on this outrageous conduct. You don’t tell police that Mr. Sheen acted like a perfect gentleman and then demand $1 million before you go to the aspen DA, or $500,000 before you go on Good Morning America.”

Walsh also filed a complaint with New York City police and is determined to file a lawsuit against Sheen for charge battery and false imprisonment.

But Sheen’s lawsuit reads that “after a consensual encounter with Sheen in the Plaza Hotel on the evening of October 25, 2010 Walsh decided this was her chance to become rich and famous.”

And that Anderson “fabricated a sensational tale about being assaulted battered and held against her will and used that fictional story as a basis for an extortion plot against Sheen, threatening that if he did not pay her at least one million dollars she would go to (i) the Aspen District Attorney with her false allegations and (ii) seek to embarrass him and attempt to damage his career by going to the media with her false tale.”

In the lawsuit, Walsh is also charged with stealing his $165,000 Patek Philippe watch. Regarding Walsh locking herself in the bathroom, the ‘Two and a Half Men’ star said “Walsh was the one who locked herself in the bathroom and refused to come out apparently because she was afraid Sheen might find the watch on her.”

Sheen wants compensation for the diamond encrusted watch Anderson allegedly stole – and damages.

As a response, Anderson’s attorney Keith Davidson said: “This is not surprising, there is absolutely no extortion by Ms. Anderson or anyone on her behalf. This is just a diversionary tactic by the fraternity house that is Charlie Sheen and his team. In the same breath, Charlie Sheen is claiming that Ms. Anderson stole his watch, but then miraculously, he offers her $20,000 the day after she allegedly took it.”