TIME reports that in March 2009, Love - who was apparently miffed about the fact that Simorangkir asked that she be paid for thousands of dollars worth of clothing worn by Love - tweeted out her frustrations.

Love accused the designer of stealing from her and said she was a "drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery who lost custody of her own child and capitalised on Love's fame."

Love's lawyer, James Janowitz, said Love didn't actually do anything wrong: "We don't believe there's any defamation, and even if there were defamatory statements, there was no damage," he said.

And, in a dramatic style we could only expect from an incident involving the oft-scandalous Love, her lawyers have arranged for a medical expert to testify that Love was not feeling "subjectively malicious" at the time of the tweet, and therefore there is no justification for the law suit.

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The trial is set to begin on 18 January this year.