Love pleads no contest to assault

Singer Courtney Love pleaded no contest to a reduced assault charge Thursday in a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors in which she agreed to anger management counseling, random drug testing and three years’ probation.

Love, 40, made a brief appearance in court before her attorney entered the plea on her behalf to a misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon before Superior Court Judge Rand S. Rubin.

Love had been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon in relation to an April 2004 incident at the home of a former boyfriend. Love allegedly found a 32-year-old woman sleeping on a sofa and threw a liquor bottle at her and chased her with a flashlight.

Defense attorney Howard Weitzman said two felony drug charges against Love in Beverly Hills Superior Court also will be “disposed” of under a similar plea agreement. Love had been charged there with charges of illegal possession of the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone.