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THE CRIME SCENE Why was the ejected shell of the shotgun found to the left and not the right of the body? This one is extremely important. More important than the heroin in my opinion.

Why were standard tests not performed such as a GSR kit, analysis of the contents of the root beer can, (read the reports the can was found with liquid in it but logged into evidence as empty) fingerprinting of the greenhouse, etc.

Were any trajectory tests done to show what the position of the shotgun was when it was fired? If not why weren't they done?

Were any measurements taken to see if it was even possible for him to shoot the gun? If not why weren't the done? The picture of him with the toy gun is just that a toy gun this shot gun was much longer and Kurt wasn't a big guy.

Why did Sgt. Cameron lie to Tom Grant about Kurt being barricaded in the greenhouse and that the little 'stool was wedged up against the door'?

Why were items logged into evidence in the case turned back over to Courtney before the case was even 30 days old?

STRANGE BEHAVIOUR Why did Courtney pretend to be Kurt's mother when calling in the missing person's report to the SPD on April 4th?

Why didn't Courtney tell Grant and the SPD that Kurt had been seen at their home on April 2nd?

Why was Grant told to watch a drug dealers house and check hotels for Kurt, but not told that Dewitt had seen him at the house?

Why did Dylan not show Grant the greenhouse when Rosemary Carroll is recorded as telling Grant that she heard Courtney tell Dylan to look in the Greenhouse.

Why did Rosemary Carroll think Kurt's death was suspicious? Why did she tell Grant about the divorce and the will? Why is she now silent?

Why did Courtney release that cropped image of Kurt with the toy gun, shortly after his death?

Why didn't Eldon Hoke (El Duce) come forward sooner?

"Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar." - Why doesn't anyone ever question this part of the note?

Why did it take 2 years for Sgt. Cameron to say that a rookie must have made a mistake in the police reports about "the marks on Kurt's hands" ?

Why hasn't Courtney sued Tom Grant for his claims, but yet sues everyone else on a spin of a dime?

Where was Pat Smear during the week of April 1st - April 8th?

Why didn't Nikolas Hartshorne the coroner, disclaim and deny the 1.52 mgs of heroin that was found in Kurt's body at the time of death after he has done numerous interviews (VH1 Confidential)?

Why did Rosemary Carroll, Kurt and Courtney's entertainment attorney, tell Tom Grant that "Kurt was not suicidal"?

Why did Rosemary Carroll tell Tom Grant that the note left by Michael "Cali" DeWitt sounded phony?

Why did Rosemary Carroll tell Tom Grant that Courtney had "no business in Los Angeles"?

If all of Kurt and Courtney's friends knew that he was suicidal, why didn't they keep an eye on him?

If Dylan Carlson knew Kurt was suicidal, why did he buy the gun for Kurt?

When Courtney found out that Kurt fled rehab, why did she contact a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR and not the POLICE first?

Why didn't Courtney go back to Seattle to help locate and maybe save her "suicidal husband"?

Why didn't Courtney call all their friends and family up in Seattle and organize a massive search party the minute Kurt fled the rehab and headed back to Seattle?

Why did Rosemary Carroll back off Grant after he replied to the letter he received from her firm threatening to sue him? Did he strike a chord or something?

Why did Courtney want to keep Grant on the pay roll and get him to sign a confidentiality agreement if he had openly admitted to her what his feelings of Kurt's "suicide" were?

What happened to Cali, and why was he always around - in Rome, at the house, whenever there was a problem? Why wasn't he ever really interviewed/questioned?

Who else did the confidentiality agreement effect besides Rosemary Carroll? i.e. other friends/associates of Kurt and Courtney who can not speak about this, even if they wanted to? otheruses4|the person|the band of the same name|Courtney Love (band)}}

Courtney wanted everyone to believe that Kurt was suicidal with an out of control drug dependency in the last days of his life. But when Kurt's body was found Krist Novoselic responded to the news of Kurt's supposed suicide as follows:

"smack was just a small part of his life."

Novoselic said he did not understand his friend's behavior. "I don't have it all figured out right now," he said. (Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 14 1994).

Those aren't the reactions one would expect if Krist knew Kurt was suicidal/drug dependent/planned to kill himself.

Buzzcocks supported Nirvana in Feb 1994. Bassist Tony Barber told the Maker, "I know he was not taking drugs on that tour. He was walking around drinking Evian water and looking clean every time I saw him. He didn't seem to consider himself a star...He seemed like a shy bloke who didn't have many friends. Often when I was talking to him, I felt like saying something like, "Look, if you need a mate just to go for a drink with or anything, I'm here." And then I came home last night and saw it on the news. I couldn't believe it. It's just so sad." (Melody Maker's April 16 1994 edition).

Pete Shelley vocalist and guitarist, "He seemed really clean when we were on tour. In some ways it was a bit awkward because he wasn't really joining in the very mild debauchery that went on." (Melody Maker, April 16 1994.)

Joe Mama visited Kurt at the Exodus rehab on April 1 1994, He said, "I was ready to see him looking like shit and depressed. He looked so fucking great." (Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone page 83. Also see Rossi's Queen of Noise page 193).

"The thing you have to remember about all the talk of Kurt being suicidal is that all the talk only started when Courtney came out after the death and said Rome was a suicide attempt and the media picked up on all her examples of Kurt being suicidal. That's when all these people started saying,'Of course he was suicidal, just listen to his music.' But that's a bunch of crap. Sure he was a moody guy and got depressed quite often. That applies to a hell of a lot of people, including me. But nobody ever talked about Kurt being suicidal before he died, Nobody. Why do you think everybody who knew him was so surprised when Courtney said that Rome was a suicide attempt?. I've read all this ignorant bullshit in the media pointing to the fact that Kurt wanted to call In Utero 'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die.' It was a joke, for chrissake. That was his warped sense of humour. He was the most sarcastic guy you'll ever meet. He was not suicidal, at least not when I knew him, and I knew him for the last year of his life." (Peter Cleary, a friend of Kurt’s from Seattle. WKKC? page 92).

"I never knew (Kurt) to be suicidal, I just knew that he was going through a really tough time." (Mark Lanegan, Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone page 90).

"Kurt wasn't suicidal Tom. He wasn't suicidal." (Rosemary Carroll friend of Kurt and Courtney, and also their lawyer in a conversation with Tom Grant in April 1994, WKKC? page 119).

"What sticks in my mind is actually running into him on the street about 2 weeks um, before he, he killed himself. And it was just, you know, I guess in relation to events, I'm glad that I did, I'm glad that I saw him. We talked and he, we exchanged phone numbers and he was really happy about the fact the book, my book of photographs that I'm doing, he was like; 'Alright, at last,' you know, 'get the real thing.' And he was- we chatted and he was concerned about my wife's illness and just really, you know, that sticks in my mind." (Charles Peterson photographer and associate, in an interview which appears on the Nirvana Teen Spirit video).

"Kurt was facing lots of pretty heavy things but he was actually pretty upbeat. He was prepared to deal with things facing him." (Dylan Carlson, Kurt’s best friend, talking to the Seattle Post Intelligencer April 15 1994).

"At the time (they went to buy the gun, 30 March 1994,) Kurt definitely wasn't suicidal or I would never have bought the gun. He was my best friend. I would have known if Rome was a suicide. No way. A year earlier I would have believed it because of the pain, but he wasn't talking like that anymore. He was making all kinds of plans for when he got back from rehab." (Dylan Carlson WKKC? page 91).

"When he talked to me he seemed to be happy." (Iris Cobain talking about a phone conversation about 2 weeks before Kurt died. In this call Kurt arranged to go fishing with his Grandfather the following week. WKKC? page 91).

"The last image I have of him, which in the light of the tragedy now seems pathetic, is of a young man playing with the little girl (Frances). He did not seem like a young man who wanted to end it all." (Dr. Galleta, the doctor who treated Kurt after the Rome incident.)

In the summer of 1993, Kurt experienced what he called "a miracle". After years of consulting specialists about his debilitating stomach pain, he found a doctor who finally diagnosed the problem - a pinched nerve relating to his scoliosis. Once the problem was diagnosed, it became treatable and Kurt finally rid himself of his daily agony. From this point on, many people detected a change in Kurt's personality; "Kurt became a new person after that. He stopped retreating into the dark side that everybody came to associate with him and actually seemed cheerful. Part of it was Frances, I think, but the stomach thing was the most important". (Dylan Carlson WKKC? page 86).

"He and Courtney hadn't been getting along. The only thing keeping them together was Frances, but Kurt had been talking of a divorce and trying to get custody." (Peter Cleary WKKC? page 87).

"He seemed normal...we'd been talking." (Dylan, remembering Kurt on March 30th, when they bought the gun, Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone page 83).

Cobain spent two days at the 20-bed clinic (Exodus) He talked to several psychologists there, none of whom considered him suicidal. (Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone page 83).

On Feb 21st 1994, Kurt was thinking in terms of the stories he wanted to tell his grandchildren. He was looking forward to having grandchildren. He wasn’t suicidal. I have this on film.

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter and lyricist for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock".

In 2004 two highly respected investigative journalists from Rolling Stone Magazine, Ian Halperin and Max Wallace published, Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, in which they claim Love was directly involved in Cobain's death . The book reached #18 on The New York Times Bestseller list.

Life and career

Early life

Love's biological family broke apart rapidly while she was still very young. During a child custody case following Love's parents' divorce, both her mother and one of her girlfriends presented letters to the court implying her father had given the child, then three years old, LSD. Harrison denies this allegation and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love's mother.

Love then spent a troubled childhood with her mother as she wandered through three husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon, and various schools including a boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand. Before arriving in New Zealand, Love had been left in the United States with a therapist, while her mother, the new husband and her half-sisters went on ahead; when she was sent for, Love was sent to the boarding school in Nelson.

While in boarding school, Love wrote poetry, joined a Bay City Rollers fan club, and, at the age of 12 (once back in the U.S., ostensibly), applied to join the Mickey Mouse Club; she was rejected after reading a poem by Sylvia Plath at the audition.

At 15, Love emancipated herself from her family and traveled around the U.S., England and the Republic of Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother's adoptive parents. During her time in England, Love met, befriended, and moved into the Toxteth, Liverpool, home of musician Julian Cope of The Teardrop Explodes, and became a regular face at rock shows. In his autobiography Head-On, Cope doesn't use her name, but refers to her as "the adolescent".

Eventually, she headed back to the United States, ending up in Portland, Oregon, still avidly pursuing music. Love supported herself by working as a stripper. Love's first rock-musician boyfriend was Rozz Rezabek of the Portland band Theatre of Sheep, who had an affair with her while she was still underage. Though the two wrote each other copious love letters, Love has said in many interviews that he did not take her virginity; she claims her first sexual encounter was a one-night stand with Michael Mooney, a sometimes-guitarist for Echo & the Bunnymen and later to Spiritualized.

Early musical career

Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as "democratic", saying that Love's dominating personality did not fit in. The two artists have remained friends, working together recently in 2005 on a track for the film Adam & Steve.

At age 22, Love moved back to Portland, then on to Los Angeles in 1987 with fellow musician Kat Bjelland, beginning a period in which Love would form bands with Bjelland only to be ousted by her from each. The pair first formed a band in L.A. with Jennifer Finch called Sugar Baby Doll (alternately Sugar Babylon). During this time Love and Bjelland began to dress alike, wearing dirty Babydoll dresses, plastic girl's hair clips, ripped stockings and overdone, often smeared makeup. An argument between the two raged over who had come up with their signature style, later dubbed Kinderwhore. Love claimed that she took the style from Christina Amphlett of 1980s Australian rock group, Divinyls, in an interview in the Los Angeles fanzine Ben Is Dead.

Love and Bjelland later formed a band called The Pagan Babies in San Francisco, with Deidre Schletter on drums and Janis Tanaka on bass. The band recorded a demo of four tracks, then ejected Love and renamed themselves Italian Whorenuns. Lastly, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bjelland started what ultimately would become her longest-running band, Babes in Toyland. Love briefly played bass, but was kicked out of this group as well. Love had more early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox's Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as some small roles on television episodes.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and set out to form her own band. To do so, she placed an ad in an issue of Flipside, to which Eric Erlandson replied. Love and Erlandson co-founded Hole and are the only two members to remain constant throughout the band's history. The group made their first gig in November 1989, after three months of rehearsal, and quickly started releasing singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The band's debut album Pretty on the Inside was released in early 1991 on Caroline Records and was produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Don Fleming of the band Gumball. It sold well for an independent release and received ecstatic reviews in the influential British alternative music press. During this period, she befriended many influential figures in the alternative rock scene, including Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins (whom she briefly dated).

Marriage

Love met Kurt Cobain on January 12, 1990, in Portland, Oregon's Satyricon club Nirvana had signed with Geffen Records and were poised to be the next big thing as the "Seattle Sound" was taking off.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Love had taken up residence, strategically, a block away from the Los Angeles apartment complex where the band resided during the recording of their debut album for Geffen, Nevermind. Love would stop by often, later saying, "We bonded over pharmaceuticals." They would hook up again in May of 1991 at a Butthole Surfers concert. In November 1991, when Hole and Nirvana both happened to be touring Europe at the same time, they hooked up for good.

Love and Cobain were married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 24, 1992. Six months later, on August 18 of that year, the couple's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

The marriage became estranged in late 1993 and they were about to divorce in 1994 right before Cobain's death. A prenuptual agreement protected Cobain's assets. Weeks prior to his death, Love asked Rosemary Carroll, one of her attorneys to get the "meanest, most vicious divorce lawyer" she could find”.

On April 8, 1994, four days before the release of Hole's album Live Through This, Kurt Cobain's body was found in his Seattle, Washington home. An autopsy determined that he had three times the lethal amount of heroin in his bloodstream.

Cobain had 1.52 mg of heroin per liter of blood in his bloodstream.) That large a dose would immediately incapacitate him seconds after it was injected. He also had a shotgun wound to his head and a shotgun with no fingerprints laying on his body.

Two days after his body was found Love garnered worldwide attention by played a recording of herself reading his alleged suicide note to assembled, mourning fans at a memorial service in Seattle on April 10, 1994.

Courtney Love inherited Kurt Cobain's estate which is worth over 200 million dollars.

Live Through This tour (1994)

The band was struck by disaster again when bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994 the night before she was scheduled to leave the band and Seattle for good. It was just two months after Cobain's death and the new album's release. A few months later, Love explained her lack of empathy for the situation to MTV's Kurt Loder, "You know ... people go back to work. This is what I do. I gotta make a living." Hole recruited 22-year-old bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur (on Corgan's recommendation) to fill in for Pfaff, and took Hole on the road, appearing at the Reading Festival in England. The band's performance was written up by broadcaster John Peel in The Guardian:

Courtney's first appearance backstage certainly caught the attention. Swaying wildly and with lipstick smeared on her face, hands and, I think, her back, as well as on the collar of her dress, the singer would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam. After a brief word with supporters at the foot of the stage, she reeled away, knocking over a wastebin, and disappeared. Minutes later she was onstage giving a performance which verged on the heroic...Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band...the band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage.

Meanwhile, Live Through This was a commercial and critical success. Rolling Stone, Spin and the Village Voice all declared it "Album of the Year", and by November the record was certified gold. By April 1995, it went platinum. Hole next embarked on a tour opening for Nine Inch Nails.

Celebrity Skin era (1996-2000)

Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama. During this time she met and began dating Edward Norton, a relationship which after four years would become her longest yet. The two were engaged, but ultimately broke up.

In 1998, Hole released Celebrity Skin. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of a possible five stars, saying "the album teems with sonic knockouts that make you see all sorts of stars. It's accessible, fiery and intimate – often at the same time. Here is a basic guitar record that's anything but basic." Celebrity Skin went on to go multi-platinum, and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin, the Village Voice, and other periodicals. Erlandson was still the lead guitarist, and now there were Melissa Auf Der Maur's backup vocals and bass, but drummer Patty Schemel was replaced by a session drummer during the recording.

Around this time, Love created with Fender's low-price sub-brand Squier her personal line of guitars, Vista Venus (as Cobain did in 1994, doing the design of his Fender Jag-Stang). The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup. In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: "I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar. I didn't want it all teched out. I wanted it real simple, with just one pickup switch. Because I think that cultural revolutions are in the hands of guitar players". She also declared, "my Venus is better than the Jag-Stang". The Squier Vista Venus model is currently discontinued, as is the Jag-Stang as of 2006.

Hole toured Australia in 1999 to support the album, then hit the U.S. on an ultimately failed co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson. The two bands often mocked each other on stage. Hole eventually dropped off the tour, citing their obligation to pay 50% of Manson's staging costs as a major reason. The singers of both bands told MTV there was no personal animosity, and they were happy to end the tour. Hole finished off the year's dates with Imperial Teen opening.

In May 2000, Love spoke in New York at the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, giving a speech criticizing the major American record labels. The speech was then reproduced on the news site Salon.com, and was, at the time, their most popular article to date. In the speech, Love accused the major labels of devising a corrupt system of recording contracts to make the labels millions, while the band itself "may as well be working at a 7-Eleven."

With Hole fallen into disarray, Love attempted to begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard during summer/autumn of 2001, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley, whom Post recommended. Though a demo was completed, the project never reached fruition: conflicts between Love and Crosley, then between Love and replacement bassist Corey Parks from Nashville Pussy, reportedly led to the group's demise. On May 24, 2002, Hole announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group.

America's Sweetheart (2001-2004)

"I need to be saved," Love told Rolling Stone magazine writer Neil Strauss during an interview in May, 2004. "I need to be fucking saved."

On October 2, 2003, Love was arrested in Los Angeles while breaking several windows to enter her then-boyfriend, manager and producer Jim Barber's home. Barber did not press charges (Love says she had paid for the home), but the police charged her with being under the influence of a controlled substance. Released on bail, just four hours later Love was rushed to a hospital to be treated for an accidental overdose of Oxycontin. Eight days later, on October 10, Frances Bean was taken by the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services and placed with Wendy O'Connor, Cobain's mother.

Authorities then ordered a 72-hour hospital evaluation of Love's health, but she walked from the facility, claiming she was ready to head directly to rehab. When Love didn't attend, her lawyer issued a statement that they may move to have the police department's toxicology reports re-examined. In public appearances, Love protested her arrest, denying all charges, describing the drugs found on her as "one expired Percocet and one Ambien". The police report, however, alleged possession of Oxycontin and Hydrocodone without prescription.

In 2003, Love pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges related to possession of painkillers. In February 2004, an arrest warrant was issued for Love after she failed to appear at a preliminary hearing. The warrant was subsequently rescinded when she appeared in court on February 18. She released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, just eight days earlier. The album was a commercial flop and received a mixed reaction from critics. Spin called it a "jawdropping act of artistic will", while Rolling Stone proclaimed that, "for people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon." The record was re-recorded and finished while Love was either fresh from or still undergoing drug rehab, and in its first three months the album sold about 86,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

During this same period, an estimated $20 million of money belonging to Love and her daughter was apparently siphoned off in a case that is still being investigated by the FBI. "It was my hell time. I was doing cocaine and had incredible financial trouble. $20 million was stolen from us and at the time I couldn't do the math very well. So I took this drug to help me. It turned out the crazy math was real. The FBI looked at the paperwork and saw $1.2 million to the UK, $180,000 to Nice. It was the former boyfriend and the two assistants. They had power of attorney and they purchased property. They started in about 2000 without me knowing and I got more out of it. I think they thought she will die. In fact I should not be alive after what I went through in the Period."

In early 2004, just as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love contacted ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney asking her to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed for the second time) and add drums to Love's otherwise complete solo debut, America's Sweetheart. Returning to the States, Maloney was put in charge of assembling Love's live band. After a world wide search and countless auditions Maloney reconnected with guitarist Radio Sloan, found guitarist Lisa Leveridge, bassist Dvin Kirakosian, and the four women formed the core of Love's backing band. Violinist Emilie Autumn later joined the band. After playing with the band for only a few weeks Love decided to call her new band "The Chelsea” after Maloney's previous endeavour.

In January 2005, Love regained the custody of her daughter that she had lost in October 2003, after completing a state-enforced rehabilitation program and enduring a probational period. Child welfare authorities alluded to drug addiction when responding to the press on the matter, though they didn't comment directly.

In 2005 Love made a statement about Dave Grohl, the drummer for Nirvana and front man for the Grammy Award winning band Foo Fighters; "He's been taking money from my child (Frances Bean) for years."

On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in violation of her probation. She was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who initially said "my belief was that you need to go to the county jail." This program was also violated, and on September 21 she was sentenced to six months in lock down rehab.

Present day (2005-Present)

In June 2005, three months after being released from court-ordered drug rehabilitation, Love started recording her second solo LP, titled Nobody's Daughter. She began writing the new material during rehab. Song titles include "My Bedroom Walls", "Pacific Coast Highway", "Sunset Marquis", and an anti-cocaine song named "Loser Dust", among others. Former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry is producing the record. Billy Corgan has also assisted Love in writing and recording some tracks. A documentary about the making of the record, entitled The Return of Courtney Love, was filmed, written and produced by Will Yapp and aired on British TV network More4 on September 27, which resulted in leaking of sound clips of some of the songs off of Nobody's Daughter. The first entire song to be available for downloading was "Never Go Hungry Again", recorded in a rough acoustic version during an interview for The Times in November. Audio clips from the recording of the song "Samantha" also were made available on Internet in May 2007, through an interview to NPR.org, though not in its entirety.

On February 3, 2006, Love was released from house arrest and issued the following statement: "I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these 90 days... helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me... I've just been playing guitar and taking care of my daughter. I want to to let the community know I'm doing great... I've been really inspired and have remained inspired." On July 2, 2007 she is off to Europe, with her band.

Courtney's new band consists of:

• Patricia "Pato" Vidal (Bass)
• Liam Angelick (Guitar, and can also be seen in the A/W 07 Burberry Campaign shot by Mario Testino)
• Stu Fisher (Drums)
• Micko Larkin (Guitar, formerly of Larrikin Love)
• Bethia Beadman (Keyboards and Background Vocals)

Love has released a memoir/diary collection book, Dirty Blonde, in October 2006, and her second solo album is slated for an autumn release. She also collaborated with DJ Milky and Ai Yazawa to make the manga Princess Ai. On June 1, 2007, Love made her stage comeback in a not-so-secret gig, by the end of a Linda Perry show at House of Blues in Los Angeles. With Perry and the producer's backup band, she performed the songs "Nobody's Daughter", "Sunset Marquis", "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Letter to God". On July 23, 2007, Love added the first song to her MySpace page, titled "Dirty Girls", followed by a piano and vocal only demo of "Sunset Marquis".

Also in 2006, she reportedly sold 25% of Nirvana’s catalogue for fifty million dollars. Love claims that twenty million dollars was embezzled from her by members of her entourage leaving her on the verge of applying for food stamps. She claims the F.B.I. is investigating this incident but there is no corroborating evidence for this claim

In recent interviews Christopher Scott, a noted Art and Fashion Photographer, has referred to Love as one of his muses. Also, she has worked with photographer David LaChapelle, appearing on the cover of his book 'Heaven to Hell' depicting the pieta.

Love announced in April 2007 that "I'm going to have a Christie's auction," to hock the bulk of late husband Kurt Cobain’s belongings with a portion going to charity.

In October 2007 it was announced that Love will be executive producer for the upcoming Universal Pictures film version of Heavier Than Heaven, a biography by Charles R. Cross detailing her late husband's life.

Love currently lives in L.A. with her daughter. She also has an official MySpace page and blogs at her official website courtneylove.com.

Family history

Love's mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was the well-known children's writer Paula Fox (herself also adopted). Carroll penned an autobiography titled Her Mother's Daughter, released in 2006, about her relationship with both adoptive mother and elder daughter.

Conflicting news stories began to appear in August 2003 regarding Love's family tree, some of them remarking that Love's mother had taken DNA tests, and that the results proved that Carroll's father was actor Marlon Brando. The news reports implied this disclosure would appear in Carroll's then-forthcoming memoir. Later that month, however, a spokeswoman for Carroll's publisher, Doubleday, told the New York Daily News, "There was nothing in Linda Carroll's book proposal about Marlon Brando, nor will there be anything in the book about him. I've spoken to her and she has told me that there is no truth to the suggestion that she is related to Marlon Brando."

Awards

Discography

Studio albums

• America's Sweetheart (2004)
• Nobody's Daughter (expected 2008)

Filmography

• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Straight to Hell (1987)
• Tapeheads (1988)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992/Documentary)
• Tank Girl (1995/Executive Music Producer)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Feeling Minnesota (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Not Bad for a Girl (1996/Documentary/Co-Producer)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997/Documentary)
• Kurt & Courtney (1998/Documentary)
• Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999/Documentary/Narrator)
• 200 Cigarettes (1999)
• Man on the Moon (1999)
• Beat (2000)
• Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2000/Documentary)
• Julie Johnson (2001)
• Last Party 2000 (2001/Documentary)
• Trapped (2002)
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003/Documentary)
• (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale (2004/Documentary)
• Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005/Short Film)
• Lovelace (2008)

References

1. Although some sources give Love's birth name as "Love Michelle Harrison", her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a birth name of "Courtney Michelle Harrison". Between adoptions from several stepfathers, she has also gone by the names "Courtney Michelle Rodriguez" and "Courtney Michelle Menely". The name change to "Courtney Michelle Love" happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her musical career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name "Courtney Michelle Menely"). According to the same statistics list above, the birth status of Courtney's 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include "Love" as the mother's maiden surname.
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6. Azerrad, Michael. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Doubleday, 1994. ISBN 0-385-47199-8, p. 170
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8. Matheson, Whitney. "Pop Candy: Books I Read On Vacation" USA Today, Nov. 27th, 2006. As revealed in her scrapbook, Dirty Blonde, Love was a teenage fan of the Bay City Rollers: "...from the collages of her favorite rockers (in her case, the Bay City Rollers), to scrawled lists of artists and things she yearned to learn more about to pages of poems and daydreams..."
9. Rockland, Kate. "Don't Call It a Comeback (Yet)", New York Times, Nov. 5th, 2006: "The book offers several gems; one is a 1976 rejection letter from the Mickey Mouse Club. 'I read Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy,"' Love says, grinning widely.'"
10. Iley, Chrissy. "Courting disaster" Times Online, OCt, 22nd, 2006. "'I talked one of my mother’s gurus, of which she had many, into letting me live with him. He got $3,000 a month from my trust fund, which he’d spend on boys, and I went to the junior high, where my friends were teenage prostitutes. They were so glamorous, I just wanted to hang out with them. Melissa, Melinda and Melody. I ended up going through the juvenile system with them because I got arrested shoplifting a Kiss T-shirt.' She was 13."
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18. Babes in Toyland Biography
19. Hole is a Band; Courtney Love is a Soap Opera
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21. "Heavier Than Heaven," page 201, biography by Charles R. Cross
22. Azerrad, p. 172
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28. James Hunter reviews Celebrity Skin
29. Entry for Celebrity Skin at Acclaimed Music
30. Drown Soda: Fender Squier Vista Venus
31. Hole Tones: The Secrets Of Celebrity Skin's Smooth Sound
32. Hole / Marilyn Manson - Live Review
33. MTV.com: "/ MTV news March 22, 1999". URL accessed June 18 2007.
34. "Courtney Love does the math" "an unedited transcript of Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16, 2000."
35. Sort The 'Bastard' Out
36. COREY PARKS
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38. Rocker Courtney Love Arrested, Hospitalized in LA
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40. Courtney Love Arrested After Allegedly Striking Fan With Mic Stand
41. Rock star Love arrested aftergig
42. FOX News — Did Virgin Records Use Her?
43. The Times Online
44. http://www.beautyandthedirt.co.uk/show.asp?ID=1341
45. http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Dvin_L._Kirakosian
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47. Courtney Love Fighting For Custody Of Daughter Frances Bean
48. Courtney Love Regains Custody Of Frances Bean Cobain
49. Teary-Eyed Courtney Love Ordered Back To Rehab By Judge
50. Courtney Love Is 'Nobody's Daughter'
51. ^ Courtney Is Cleared, Ready To Rock
52. TheTimes.co.uk: Podcasts
53. Rebuilding Courtney Love, One Song at a Time
55. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=18761737
57. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=18761737
58. Blood On The Tracks — Moonwashedrose's September 2006 Interview with Courtney Love
62. The Guardian: Sins of the mothers
63. Brando Shocks Courtney Love
64. Courtney Love Not Brando's Granddaughter

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