Love Sued over Rehab Tab

Los Angeles (E! Online) -

Courtney Love has climbed out of her legal hole only to wind up in a money pit.

The cleaned-up rocker has been sued for breach of contract by a California drug treatment center for allegedly failing to pay a $181,286 bill racked up during a three-month sojourn two years ago.

The lawsuit was filed Mar. 1 in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Beau Monde International, a luxurious, highly exclusive oceanfront rehab clinic located in Newport Beach that offers customizable detox programs.

The facility only accepts five patients at a time for its regimen of intensive therapy, counseling and life coaching, spa services, and substance abuse and addiction education, making it a popular venue for Hollywood burnouts.

"The services were rendered and the costs incurred at Defendant's special instance and request; Defendant promised to pay for the services and costs," states the suit, a copy of which is online at

The Smoking Gun. "Neither the whole nor any part of the above sum has been paid, although demand therefore has been made repeatedly."

Love's attorney, Howard Weitzman, said Friday that the suit was "unfortunate" and his client was attempting to resolve the bill.

"Often parties have differing points of view on what may be owed which is why lawsuits like this are settled quickly. It's often not the 'if' but the 'how much' that seeds these types of disputes," he told E! Online.

Aside from the bill, the complaint also includes a copy of the admissions agreement which the "Doll Parts" singer signed to avoid a jail term.

In December, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin ruled that Love had successfully completed her court-ordered rehab and gotten her act together, and decided to end her probation from a string of drug-related cases ahead of schedule.

The performer had pleaded no contest in 2005 to attacking musician Kristin King the previous year. Love also pleaded guilty in separate cases to possessing Vicodin and oxycontin without a prescription and to being under the influence of cocaine.

In September 2005, she was sentenced to the three-month stint in rehab and ordered to submit to random, twice-weekly checks for drugs and alcohol after she relapsed at a Hollywood hotel two months earlier.

At a progress report hearing the following February, Love told Rubin that she had put "a very gnarly drug habit behind [her]" and was "doing great."

Now, the former Hole mastermind is working on getting her career back on track. She has been in the studio laying down tracks for her first solo since 2004's critically lambasted America's Sweetheart. No word yet when the new disc will hit stores.