IUC exclusive: Kurt Cobain RIP! 15 years later, is Courtney up to her old tricks?

Posted on April 8th, 2009 by HisHighness in IUC:Entertainment, IUC:Exclusive

15 years ago today, when Kurt Cobain’s body was found in a room above his garage, Courtney Love seized the moment. We know from tapes furnished by her own private detective that she and Kurt were already in the middle of a nasty divorce battle. We know that Kurt had contacted their entertainment attorney and asked that Courtney be removed from the will but that the new will had not yet been signed at the time of his death. We know that Courtney believed Kurt was cheating on her and that he had bought airplane tickets for himself and an unidentified woman. Each of these facts are incontrovertible. Yet within minutes of arriving at the Seattle estate to address the throng of reporters, she had become the tragic widow overcome by grief. However, that didn’t stop her from doing two things. First, she told a lie that would have enormous repercussions in the years to follow in the public perception of Kurt Cobain. She told the media that Kurt’s recent overdose in Rome had actually been a suicide attempt, not the accidental mixture of drugs and alcohol that she had originally described, and that he had always been suicidal. Even though the Rome doctor later contradicted her account and revealed that Kurt had ingested the date rape drug, Rohypnol, the perception stuck. She also did another thing that day. She took time out from her grieving to remind the assembled reporters that her new album, Live Through This, would be hitting record stores that week.

Because the will remained unsigned at the time of death, Courtney and their daughter, Frances Bean, ended up inheriting Cobain’s vast estate, worth hundreds of millions of dollars in future royalties. The proceeds were to be split equally, with Courtney managing her daughter’s share in trust until she turned 18. Well, guess what? The magic date is fast approaching and Frances is due to come into her share next year, making her a very very rich teenager. That was the plan anyway.

Over the years, Courtney publicly admitted “borrowing” from her daughter’s share of the estate to finance her very expensive lifestyle, but promising to pay it back long before it’s due. For some reason, the people managing the estate allowed this highly questionable practise.

Oh, but what’s this we hear in today’s newspapers? According to Courtney, all the money has suddenly vanished, looted by unscrupulous vultures who stole $30 million in cash and as much as $750 million in real estate. Apparently there’s no money left to pay Frances after all.

The official version, according to Courtney: In the last year, when there was no money left, she noticed that “many of those involved with the estate’s coffers mismanaged, stole and outright looted it shamelessly” without anybody noticing.

According to her lawyer Rhonda Holmes, “Courtney noticed the money was gone when there wasn’t any left. It’s no secret she struggled with substance-abuse issues, but in the last year she’s taken a more serious approach to sobriety and started noticing things were wrong. She hired private investigators, accountants and me.”

So far, the media have bought her story hook, line and sinker and have even compared her to the victims of Bernard Madoff. It’s being treated as breaking news by the both the mainstream media and every entertainment site imaginable.

But wait. Doesn’t anybody do their homework anymore? 13 months ago, in March 2007, Courtney reported to the LAPD that Kurt’s social security number had been stolen five years earlier and that $70 million was missing, mostly money due to be paid to Frances Bean from the estate. According to Courtney, “I knew it had been going on since when I went cuckoo – bananas – in 2003. It was fraud after fraud. But nobody believed me until now. I did a check on my deceased husband’s social security number and he has a house in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He bought it last year.”

So which lie should we believe? That she only noticed it within the last year, as her lawyers said yesterday. Or that she knew five years ago that it was happening as she said 13 months ago.

If Frances was smart, she’d wake up on her 18th birthday next year and hire her own private investigator to determine where the money went. When I interviewed Courtney’s own private investigator Tom Grant in 1995, the former Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy  who was working for her when Kurt died and for months afterwards and was the first person to accuse her of having Kurt murdered, he speculated that whoever did the deed for Courtney would blackmail her for the rest of her life, and that Courtney would find a way to funnel the money due Frances Bean to the person who committed the crime.

Food for thought.

  1. CC said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Absolutely tragic for Frances Bean if this is true. Although, if there is no money left then she’ll be like any other typical American teenager…broke as a joke and in need of a job. Perhaps, making her own money will be better anyway.

    It’s just blood money and sometimes if that vanishes, its not such a bad thing…just sayin…

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  2. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:10 am

    This is explosive. If it is true, how has Courtney got away with it for so long?

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  3. Jaguar said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:14 am

    I remember seeing Nirvana (Pearl Jam, too) waaay back before they became famous at small venues in Seattle. It’s so sad that took his life (stupid f*ck, he should have got help) and left his daughter in the care of her crazy disaster of a mother. I hope for Frances’ sake she gets away from that trainwreck and has a decent life. If the money’s gone, it’s gone – and it looks like Love’s career has dried up so hiring an investigator or lawyer wouldn’t do anything but rack up bills for the kid.

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  4. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:16 am

    @ Jaguar – I think Ian is suggesting that he didn’t commit suicide, that Love arranged to have him killed. Though wasn’t there a suicide note?

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  5. Billi said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing for FB, she may have a better future making it on her own as opposed to inheriting millions and potentially getting into the wasted lifestyle of other celebutards of sex and drugs. Hopefully she’ll get away, get a good education and go on to great things.

    But it is a shame if her father intended for her to inherit but then there’s nothing left for her.

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  6. Jaguar said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    @Keane – yes there was a “suicide note”. Kurt was always kind of perceived as “off”, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. If I remember correctly he had been sited for having a shotgun shortly before he died, but again that may not mean anything. There have been rumors for years about him being murdered instead of committing suicide but I would have thought this was something the police could have determined? I remember it was a huge deal here in Seattle back then. You would think the placement of the gun, forensics, something would have come up if was a hit.

    As an aside I have to say I’ve been mostly lurking here for about a month or so, I found this site after reading one of the gossip mags and was looking for more info about Jolie’s bodyguard’s book and ended up here. This place is an eyeopener to say the least!

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  7. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @ Jaguar – indeed. Yes I have no idea about the Kurt Cobain thing. Didn’t he leave quite a long suicide note? Unless his murderer forced him to do that at gunpoint, I’m not sure how it could have been murder. Another mystery, who knows!

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  8. hughes said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Now THIS is fabulous reporting! I had always believed the Kurt Cobain suicide angle, but this very credible piece blows everything apart. Courney Love is absolutely despicable. She needs to go to jail. Where are Kurt’s family and allies?!

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  9. ml said on April 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    boy folks are so easily swayed. halperin long ago proposed this theory and was debunked by many. people believe anything, unsubstantiated on this site.

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  10. Eric Hundin said on April 8th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    I found your blog on MSN Search. Nice writing. I will check back to read more.

    Eric Hundin

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  11. Billi said on April 8th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Hey I’m still not sure if Marilyn Monroe was murdered or committed suicide although I lean to the latter but there was some very questionable behavior and connections surrounding her death. Sounds like Cobain’s death and things that went on before and after leave some doubt as to what really happened. It still may have been a suicide.

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  12. Chris said on April 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    @ml:
    Halperin did NOT propose this theory. He wrote a very objective book exploring the various theories, which I read when I was a teenager. He debunked many of the crazy conspiracy theories. In the last chapter he says that he found no “smoking gun” proving that Courtney murdered Kurt. But he certainly presented a lot of damning circumstantial evidence. And the most damning thing of all were the tapes that the PI recorded proving that Courtney’s own lawyer, the godmother to Frances Bean, thought the suicide note had been “forged.” Those tapes are available to listen to and are absolutely shocking. They don’t prove she murdered Kurt but they do prove that he was leaving her and that she was furious and consulting her own divorce lawyers and that he had asked to have her removed from the will.

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  13. keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    @ ml

    Other than hughes, some1 I have never seen post on this site b4, who exactly from the above posts ru referring 2 as unquestioningly believing it? People r merely considering it, not accepting it. There’s a BIG difference. The devil is in the detail ml, and I wld suggest u may benefit from examining them b4 making sweeping generalizations.

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  14. mandy said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    Has anyone ever seen Martin Bashir’s documentary about Courtney? I have been suspicious of her ever since. She is a truly evil person.

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  15. section9 said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    Has the State of Washington or the U.S. Department of Justice ever, and I do mean, ever done a full field investigation of this death, given the fact that the money has, like, you know, vanished?

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  16. knowone said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    i’m just going to say RIP Kurt. Drugs and depression are a deadly combo, and I don’t think we’ll ever know the extend of how dysfunctional these two were together. I hope and it appears as if Frances Bean is a young woman who can survive this horror. Courtney fell back heavily on drugs and that is very common behavior among suicide survivors. It is an awful thing to survive the suicidal death of a loved one. I kinda believe she could have been looted by Kurt’s family and/or strangers who set her up….again, loads of money and lots of trauma + drugs are a recipe for fraud. I’ve never been a fan of Courtney’s, I mean, she ADMITTED to doing heroin during her pregnancy. I hope she gets help, because she’s a mother and that’s always gonna be the most important legacy of her late husband.

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  17. VancouverHigh said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    The suicide note wasn’t a suicide note — at least not the main part of it. It was simply a long-ish letter. The suicidal part looked like it was hastily added at the very end of it and written in someone else’s handwriting. His death is suspicious.

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  18. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    I just have no idea how all this money could just “disappear” without anyone looking into it. If the money was designated to be held in trust for her daughter then whoever has access to that trust fund have to be liable for the disappearance. Courtney, her accoutants, whoever have access must be responsible. Money can’t just be accessed by any old person. Its a criminal case of theft and/or fraud, why isn’t it or hasn’t it been investigated? As with the suicide/murder? I am beginning to despair about the state of law enforcement and corruption in the US.

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  19. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    @ VancouverHIgh – ugh, that is awful to hear. Please can someone explain to me why these things aren’t investigated? We don’t have many of these cases in the UK at all where a death has been left unexplained, not properly investigated and with an open verdict. There is one that I can think of, a guy called Stuat Lubbock who was found floating in the swimming pool of gay, family favourite tv presenter, Michael Barrymore. When the police were called, Barrymore had fled the scene. Probably because he was on drugs but his involvement is still debated. There were signs on the body that Lubbock had been raped although it is argued that the sex may have been consensual. But no-one can explain how he came to be floating in the pool. The police missed loads of evidence that should have been collected and didn’t investigate it properly and no-one to this day knows what happened to him. It is an obvious cover up to me, someone, maybe Barrymore knows exactly what happened to Lubbock, but they’re keeping their secrets and the police don’t seem to be pushing it. They have no evidence to go on apparently. Its bizarre to me considering how great at solving major crime our police force is in most instances. This one has just been left like it doesn’t even matter.

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  20. Angie's Fax Machine said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Didn’t something similar happen to Trent Reznor? For a long time he had substance abuse issues and a lot of his money disappeared. He didn’t notice until he cleaned up and sued his money mgmt people. They claimed he used it all up on partying and drugs. TR then said that’s bullshit. I don’t know what came of it, but it’s likely that what Ian suggests could happen (in CL’s case).

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  21. Angie's Fax Machine said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    @Keane – check out this website if you haven’t already. It explains everything

    http://www.justiceforkurt.com/

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  22. p said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    [Over the years, Courtney publicly admitted “borrowing” from her daughter’s share of the estate to finance her very expensive lifestyle, but promising to pay it back long before it’s due. For some reason, the people managing the estate allowed this highly questionable practise.]

    Yeah like that doesn’t tell you anything about the disappearing funds. Great job Ian!

    And welcome back! we missed you.

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  23. Kate said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    @ml:
    Is the ml that they say on FF is mad that this site is trashing Angelina and not Pitt and this is the ml that is the one connected to the Mickey Brett book? This person is angry with Ian it seems. I read through a thread over there where they were going off on everyone because no one believed them about their connection to Mickey Brett, one person said this is Mickeys girlfriend, and this person hates Pitt and goes out their way to destroy him , is a fan or was a fan of Jolie’s. So, in light of that is it any wonder that ml would agree with anything that Ian writes on anyone, ml is still mad about the plants and dog it sounded from her post on FF. Said all she cares about is the missing money for the pictures.Okay now I am with you there, and someone was kind enough to post the info for me on the tax returns on another thead, but don’t come on here and call Ian out, you are wasting your time, this is not Female First.

    Ian as Chris said did not accuse her of murdering Kurt, but he did give some very strong food for thought. Let me remind everyone that is exactly how Martha Moxleys’ murder was solved. It is called-

    Investigative Journalism

    You may not like what it reveals but that is how it goes. Courtney has gotten a free pass far too long. I hope they dig deep on this, not because her daughter needs the money, but because she needs to vanish.

    IMO

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  24. knowone said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    @p:I admit to being a little daft, but are you saying you think Courtney is the thief, or that the managers of the trust (who allowed her to do this, apparently against the law) are the thieves. Conspiracy inside conspiracy. Too twisted for my little normal existence. (I’m starting to be really really glad to be just a regular person with a smallish income…..smaller income + being a nobody = smaller target for thieves. lol

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  25. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    @ Kate – yes there are a few people who come on purely to try to discredit Ian or say we’re all mad with no apparent reason for being here. If Ian was talking such baloney, why would they even bother to look in? And if we’re all so mad and obsessed with Brange and so is Ian, why keep coming back for more, week after week after week. Sounds like someone has an axe or two to grind to me. Doesn’t it you?

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  26. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    @ Kate – big story in the UK today about a man who was pushed over by a policeman at the G20 protests last week. He died shortly afterwards of a heart attack. The police said they didn’t touch him but witnesses said the opposite. Now a film of the events recorded by a Guardian journo has come to light. He was clearly pushed over by a policeman and did absolutely nothing to provoke him. The man wasn’t even part of the protest, just got caught up in it walking home. The policemen are now being investigated by the IPCC on manslaughter charges. The assault was initially denied by the officers involved and could have easily been covered up if it wasn’t for that journo. The importance of journalism in bringing about justice cannot be underestimated.

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  27. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    And we’re back, excellent! Seriously, someone is out to get this site. Must be rattling a few cages….

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  28. ml said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    @keane:
    oh pls. merely considering? people here love the assume the most sensational theroy. The theory that i was brad pitt.. was that merely “considered”.

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  29. ml said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    @Kate:
    no idea. I dont read FF very often (just occasionally). i have no problem with trashing pitt or jolie. i thoroughly dislike the walking catastrophe that is jolie. Ive been saying that since long before it was popular to do soI have no respect for pitt. but if FF is assuming im someone who is upset because they’re being attacked it merely proves my point. Folks on these boards have lost any semblence of credibility. Asking for reason is not tolerated, let alone offering a contasting view of things.
    Simply put, just because i dont like the jolie-pitts doesnt mean i believe every bad thing i read about them. I actually like evidence. granted its not as much fun…

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  30. ml said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    @keane:
    dont make sweeping generalizations? but thats the whole point of this place! sweeping unsubstantiated rumor! Heck, i dont nor did i ever like nirvana or courney love. And i thoroughly dislke Jolie (and pitt, as ive said many times before, is a gaping idiot) But beyond that, i have no reason to believe half the stuff claimed about them. Its merely be asserted without anything to give it substance. Id love to see the proof. but I have been advocating healthy skeptisism of sweeping broadsides for a while, without much support for doing so.

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  31. ml said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    @Kate:
    kate- you ask if im connected to the mikey brett book? I think im not the person youre refering to. i have no idea what any of that is about.

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  32. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    @ ml – see this is your problem, making assumptions about some things and sweeping generalizations about others which only serves to show your vested interest. I never said or indeed thought that you were Mr Pitt, he would have no interest in posting on this site, I’m sure he’s more than happy about what is being said here. It was you who jumped to that conclusion. If I thought you might be anyone it most certainly wasn’t him and it most certainly was not Angelina. I was just intrigued by your slightly unusual choice of language; your desire to be exact about what was being said; and your obvious desire to dissuade people from believing what was written here by saying it was at best speculation, when that is in fact far from the truth. Ian has specific sources within Brange’s camp which he is getting these stories from. SR’s posts may be poetic, but he frequently pops into the discussion forum to confirm things in black and white terms. You need to follow the threads, the posts and be a little more attentive to detail. But as Kate has pointed out, it is already more than obvious that you have a vested interest in disputing or trying to discredit everything Ian has posted on this site so far, but you and you alone know the reason for that behvaiour.

    And as for your claim that these are “sensational theories”, well call me a pedant but the theory that Angelina Jolie could be on drugs bearing in mind that she is well known to have been an addict in the past, looks like she is about 2 minutes from death and keeps collapsing on the set of her films, is hardly the stuff that great conspiracy theories are made of in my book, is it in yours? Theories regarding how people like Kurt Cobain or Anna Nicole Smith actually died have circulated for a long time now, hardly what you would call sensational considering the frgaile state of the pair and the vultures that surrounded them. But it is clearly in your interests to claim that everything Ian writes is sensationalised rubbish, and one can only ask oneself why that would be. I’m sure you’ll be more than happy to fill us in.

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  33. Meah said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Only 3 out of 4, youre slipping Ian.

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  34. Keane said on April 8th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    @ ml – a sweeping generalization and a rumour are two totally separate things. You posted on this thread that you couldn’t believe that people were so quick to believe everything that has been written on this site, even though everyone but one had merely considered the theory, questioned it and said they didn’t know the details. Only one person and a name I don’t recognise at all said they believed it. Nobody else. If you actually read the responses to the stories that have been posted on this site you will see there is a significant amount of healthy skepticism from many posters here. I for one, was not very convinced about the bestiality and the plant stories at first and I’m not 100% sure they are true now. BUT for me events are leading me to believe they are, for the following reasons: its fairly certain that Angelina is aware of this site from the e-mail that she sent to one of Ian’s sources “Kimmy”, however, he has not received one cease or desist notice or had any contatct from her lawyer. In fact the only thing she threatened to sue about was if Kimmy revealed details of their threesomes with a certain actor, not to our knowledge the other stuff, which seems to further confirm its veracity. People have been posting on this site from word go, trying to dissuade people from believing what is written here using the most lame of arguments. None of them claim to be or sound remotely like your typical loon. Last night, someone tried to sabotage this website, tonight it happened again. Now why would anyone take that action and not sue if it none of these stories were true? When I was speaking to a journo on one of the UK’s biggest selling tabs this week his immediate reaction was “sounds like someone is going to get sued very soon”, and I said well this has been going on for weeks and nothing has happened. The journo then said well maybe they just think that this guy is a madman and it wouldn’t be worth it, and I said well he’s written a number of books and made some undercover docs omany celebs, and was on GMTV (Brit breakfast show) last week to talk about his forthcoming book on MJ. And then he changed his tune. I have not been a journo on a newspaper or mag but I have done journalistic work on a highly respected UK political/issues-based discussion programme, and made a serious, heavyweight, high profile doc as part of one of the most prestigious strands on one of the most prestigious UK terrestrial tv channels. I have worked with many a journo, used them to get stories, traded stories with them and so on. I have some experience on which I am basing my judgment. That does not however mean I believe everything that is said here 100% or that I have a final position on any of the stories, I am open to hearing alternative suggestions. But at this point I have no reaosn to doubt any of what Ian is saying as he has solid, genuine sources, is doing his best to check out and corroborate his stories as one would expect, and being clear when he is not sure about a story himself. Plus he is not stupid, he is not going to risk being sued by a multi-millionaire couple amongst others for larks. Would you? Ultimately what you believe is up to you, but don’t be so arrogant as to think that you know better than everyone else posting here or that we are all just naively, unquestioningly believing everything that is said here without any basis to judge it on. I hope that answers your concerns.

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  35. Kate said on April 8th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    @Keane:
    Well said Keane, I do not know why people can not figure that out themselves, and thanks for reminding me about that certaing actor in the threesome. LOL I wonder who that was.

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  36. Z said on April 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    @Keane:
    Yep, that is the question. I suppose it’s possible to kill yourself with a shotgun, but not easy. Wouldn’t Kurt just OD if he wanted to kill himself. I hope if she did it she lands in jail now. And forever.

    @Keane:
    “I am beginning to despair about the state of law enforcement and corruption in the US.” Me, too!!!! It is sad and frustrating. I know some people do there job and a good job and some people care. But greed and corruption are way too prevalent and it is devastating.

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  37. Z said on April 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    @p:
    Yeah, that is a huge clue, imo.

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  38. Z said on April 8th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    @knowone:
    Yep…and being famous seems like it would be a pain in the butt.

    @Keane:
    Good arguments for the dog, etc. being the truth, Keane. I’m not sure what ml’s agenda is, but I don’t see everyone here blindly believing. I don’t know if this stuff is the truth or not, but I love the discussion.

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  39. Z said on April 8th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    @Z:
    their job…just correcting myself…lol

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  40. mooki said on April 9th, 2009 at 7:54 am

    Has anyone read Courtney’s Twitter? Could’ve been written by a crackhead….

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  41. Tigerlilly said on April 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    @mooki:

    That’s because it WAS written by a crack head….

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  42. Z said on April 9th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    @Tigerlilly:
    LOL…it’s the truth…or whatever drug she must be addicted to…I read part of what she wrote…maybe it was twitter. She sounds insane – totally out of control.

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  43. rehab said on April 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Ive been waiting for the day Ian would do an update on the annoyance which is courtney love. Ive read his book afew times, and im not sad enough not to admit i believe it.
    It isnt surprising the moneys gone, shes a giant mess who doesnt seem to care for her childs wellfair, who lets someone like that keep a child anyway, anyone else(without money) would have them taken away.
    shes one of only afew people who makes me mad (madder now i read her twitter)
    cheers ian!

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  44. Tigerlilly said on April 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    I will say this in Courtney’s defense, suicide by it’s very nature MAKES NO SENSE. It goes against the most primal base insticnt, to protect oneself against death. KC did exhibit clear self destructive tendencies. I think his suicide was violence turned inward. It was of an impulsive, angry, heavily depressed and probably ladened with pain action. He didn’t overdose because he wanted to get the job done. He was an habitual drug user. He had a tolerance. There was a slim possiblilty someone could find him before he died. so the best bet was to blow his head off. When you mean to commit suicide, much like murder, you make sure you get the job done. He did that. There is NO WAY he would have relied on drugs to kill him if he meant to kill himself. He committed suicide in my opinion. I believe he committed the murder on himself he wished upon others due to the rather violent nature he chose.

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  45. Z said on April 9th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    @Tigerlilly:
    You have some good points there….yeah, maybe he didn’t want to try to OD and fail. And yeah, it was violent…I’ve read that men are more likely to use a gun to commit suicide – whereas women would prefer to OD….so that fits. It sure seems like is was convenient for Courtney, though.

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  46. Yup said on April 10th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    …the franchise…

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  47. Different Guest said on April 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    @Keane:It all depends on how the trust or trusts were set up and who is the trustee. From what I gather there was a will, so if the will was written in better times and named Courtney as the trustee, and was set up for Frances’ benefit (without restriction) Courtney can claim that the money was spent providing a home for Frances and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do. The upside of trusts are they aren’t made public and they aren’t under the supervision of the courts. The downside, trustees can loot them.

    If I recall correctly at one point, one of the Grandmothers had custody of Frances for at least a year or more. The other relatives may not have been sophisticated enough or had the money to take a case to court to have Courtney removed as the trustee from Frances trust.

    Side note: Washington is a community property state, so I/2 of whatever Kurt made during the marriage was automatically Courtney’s.

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  48. stinky-inky said on April 11th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    I never believed he committed suicide until we started seeing more of Courtney Love. Then it all made sense.

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  49. knowone said on April 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    @stinky-inky:In my work, I help suicide survivors. It is a bad, bad, bad recovery, and in all honesty (and I would not say this to a survivor) I’m not sure a person ever really “recovers” from the loss of a loved one to suicide. The drug use is to deal with the guilt, survivor’s guilt, just like a holocaust survivor. So, when someone is able to function perfectly and continue on with a “normal” life following the suicide of a loved one, it usually means they’re in denial and the breakdown can happen years later. Or, the breakdown occurs in the years following the death. YEARS. It takes years to process this type of death. Not at all like a “normal” death, b/c it is sudden, it is violent, and it leaves so much guilt and remorse and shame and regret in its wake. So, that Courtney was already an addict, of course in stress a person’s coping behavior is worsened. Bad coping habits escalate. It makes sense to me that she could not handle her finances. And that lots of people were already blaming her for Kurt’s death means she herself cannot cope and drug use escalates, inability to concentrate and function, finances often get spent, among normal people, b/c they’re too complicated. I hope Frances Bean has received a lot of good care, even though it appears that Courtney is still very much struggling to survive. So very sad.

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  50. stinky-inky said on April 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    @knowone:
    I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make light of the survivors of suicide. She was a skanky hot mess before he died and I think his Nirvana band mates have made that clear with comments over the years. It seemed like she was acting guilty, whether for sins of comission or omission, after his death. I guess both would be understandable, although she did seem to really enjoy basking in the publicity sunshine afterward. Cobain was a genuine musical genius and she was in his shadow. That’s gotta be tough for an attention-ho. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that it wasn’t suicide.

    It’s a tragedy for the children either way.

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  51. Keane said on April 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Re: Courtney. It occurred to me today that her descent in to drugged up fuckery since Cobain died may not have been caused by grief after all, especially if she was planning to divorce him. It occurred to me that it may be a much stronger emotion indeed that’s causing her to self-destruct, because she clealry is, God knows how she’s still here. And it occurred to me that the emotion which is capable of fucking someone up much more than grief, could be guilt. Just a thought.

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  52. Pia-Louise said on April 24th, 2009 at 6:18 am

    yea nice Work :D

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  53. Adriana said on May 20th, 2009 at 8:57 am

    I interviewed Ian Halperin in 2004 when his second book about Kurt Cobain came out: “Love & Death..The Murder of Kurt Cobain”. I remember it was a nice talk of about 40 minutes. Among all the things we talked about…he said: “The Seattle Police Department investigated this case for ten minutes. We did it for TEN YEARS!”. Ian halperin and his writing partner Max Wallace really did a great job. There is NO doubt for me that Kurt Cobain was murdered. It’s been scientifically proven that “A dead man can’t pull the trigger”. Kurt was already dead when he got the shotgun. As for the so called “suicide note”…it wasn’t a suicide note but a good bye note addressed to the music business and his fans. I really hope some day this case can be reopened. R.I.P Kurt Cobain

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  54. Shannon said on August 25th, 2009 at 2:32 am

    Tom Grant is currently working on a self-funded documentary “Project Unplugged-Kurt Finally Speaks Out” (being launched on Youtube), but he is having some funding difficulties. Tom is grateful for all of his support, whether it be just moral support, or financial support. You only have to donate $20 dollars to be listed as a contributor in the ending credits. If you can’t afford to donate (which I strongly urge you to do so, even if it’s $3-5 dollars) , then sign up to youtube and subscribe to his channel for updates.

    It won’t be a work of art, but possibly some new information will be released… It’s gonna be a low-budget masterpiece! Stay tuned.

    Again, if you support Tom’s plight to bring justice, please donate.

    http://www.cobaincase.com

    @IanUnderCover- Would you be a financial contributor? If you don’t want to financially contribute, can you maybe put a Project Unplugged banner on your webpages?

    I am a 21 year old NIRVANA fan that thinks that Kurt’s murder going unresolved for 15 years is 15 years too long…
    Justice for Kurt.

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