Courtney Love has praised Gwyneth Paltrow as a "true friend".

The Hole rocker and the 'Contagion' actress spent New Year's Eve (31.12.11) together in Abu Dhabi where Gwyneth's husband Chris Martin was paid $1.5 million to play a special gig with his band Coldplay and Courtney revealed she had taken time out of their celebrations to get some advice from Gwyneth.

Courtney Love claims her landlady made her cry when she last visited her.

The Hole singer is currently at war with Donna Lyon, who owns the apartment in New York's West Village area which she is renting, after she claimed she was behind with her rent and had redecorated without permission and their latest showdown came when they recently met.

One of Kate Moss' favorite photographs of herself is expected to sell for $28,600 at auction.

The black and white nude portrait of the supermodel, taken by photographer Albert Watson at the end of a day's shoot in 1993, will go on sale at Bonhams auction house in London next week.

Courtney Love has been given an honorary patronage by an Irish university.

The Hole frontwoman was honored yesterday (18.10.11) with the Trinity College Philosophical Society's Honorary Patronage, and posed for pictures and chatted about her life with students.