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Top 10 Fascinating Facts about Courtney Love

People sit in two camps with this star 鈥� you either love her or you hate her. She is a rock star, woman, artist, wife, mother and role model. She helped change the way women were viewed and treated in music and in pop culture. Courtney Love is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989.

She was born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, California in 1964. Love spent her early years living in hippie communes in Oregon and at schools in Europe and New Zealand, under the care of her mother and other family members.

By age 16, Love became legally emancipated and traveled throughout Europe, living off of a small trust fund left behind by her grandmother. Love eventually returned to Portland, Oregon, still pursuing music, and then moved around to various locations in the United States before making her break into the industry.

Her most famous songs include “Doll Parts,” “Violet,” “Celebrity Skin,” “Malibu” and “Awful.” Love has also acted in films and has appeared in films like 1986’s Sid and Nancy, 1996’s Basquiat, 1996’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, 1999’s 200 Cigarettes, 1999’s Man on the Moon and 2002’s Trapped. She also appeared in a recurring role in the television drama Sons of Anarchy during its seventh and final season in 2014. Continue reading for the top 10 fascinating facts about Courtney Love.

1. Courtney Love was Married to Kurt Cobain

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The love story of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love seemed like a rock and roll fairytale, but considering what ended up happening, their love was anything but perfect. It was not exactly a shotgun wedding, but it took a few months of dating before Kurt and Courtney got married in Honolulu, Hawaii, four days after Kurt’s birthday. He ended up wearing pajamas instead of a tuxedo, but Courtney donned a lace dress previously owned by actress, Frances Farmer. At the time of their wedding, Courtney was already pregnant with a daughter Frances.

Sadly, their romance would end in tragedy when Cobain committed suicide slightly over two years later, on April 5, 1994. But despite all of their troubles from drug addiction to allegations of domestic violence.

Kurt’s suicide note still has an air of mystery about it. But, based on a transcript of the suicide note, his thoughts were with Courtney and Frances (their child), despite his inner demons haunting him. Near the end of his note, he tells Courtney, “Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. For her life, which will be so much happier without me.”

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2. Courtney Love Dabbled in Drugs

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Courtney Love achieved great fame and commercial success as Hole鈥檚 frontwoman thanks to her unique voice and the band鈥檚 hit records. However, Love couldn鈥檛 focus on her career as a musician due to her longtime struggle with drug addiction and it became harder for her to give up after the death of her husband.

In 2004 Courtney Love was sentenced to 18 months in drug rehab, closing one chapter in a troubling saga that began when she was accused of trying to break into her ex-boyfriend’s home while high on cocaine. Love was arrested after she allegedly tried to break into the home of former manager and boyfriend Jim Barber. Cocaine and other opiates were found in her system.

Frances Bean Cobain has said that the drug addiction of her mother, Courtney Love, led to the death of two of her pets.

She further said that 鈥淐ourtney Love has taken drugs for as long as I can remember. She basically exists now on鈥� Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes. She rarely eats鈥� She often falls asleep in her bed while she is smoking, and I am constantly worried that she will start a fire (which she has done at least three times) that will threaten our lives.鈥�

Contrary to what many people believe, addiction isn鈥檛 just confined to street gangs, deviants, and the homeless. As a leading disease throughout the world, drug addiction does not discriminate against color, race, creed, or gender. It carries the potential of ruining the lives of absolutely anyone, from middle-class stay-at-home parents to big-wig corporate CEOs.

3. Courtney Love Awards and Recognition

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Love received critical adulation for Hole’s 1991 hardcore punk-influenced debut album, and the band’s second release, Live Through This, went certified platinum and received wide critical acclaim. Love returned to film in 1995, and received critical recognition for her performance in Milo脜隆 Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, which earned her a Golden Globe Nomination.

Following this, Hole’s third release, Celebrity Skin, was nominated for three Grammy awards before the band went dormant in 2000. Love continued to occasionally act in films, including roles in Man on the Moon, and Trapped, before releasing a solo album, America’s Sweetheart, which met with mostly positive reviews but underwhelming sales.

Love re-formed Hole in 2009 with new members, and released the album Nobody’s Daughter, which met mixed-positive reviews.

4.  Her Parents were Hippies

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Love was born in San Francisco and spent her earliest years in the height of Haight-Ashbury hippidom 鈥� her father, Hank Harrison, was a road manager for the Grateful Dead. When her parents divorced, her mom accused Harrison of dosing then-toddler Love with LSD. She was in therapy by the time she was 2 years old.

Carroll married twice more and had two other daughters, finally moving with her third husband to a commune in Oregon. Brite says other kids called Love Pee Girl, 鈥漛ecause no one ever thought to wash her clothes.鈥� When she was 8, her family moved to New Zealand, but because she and her mother fought, Love was left behind with a friend of Carroll鈥檚 in the States.

Eventually, Love was shipped to New Zealand. Once there, Brite claims, her mother again found her too difficult, and Love wound up back in the U.S., where she spent several years in reform school and juvenile hall. According to one reformatory report, 13-year-old Love came back from a visit with Harrison smelling of marijuana and said her father had given it to her.

5.  Rumor has it she was Involved in Kurt Cobain’s Death

Kurt Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994, but rumors have persisted for years that he was actually murdered. What’s more, many suspect Love may have been involved. Supposedly, Cobain was on the verge of divorcing her when he died. Love also had a lot to gain financially from her husband’s death.

A documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck offers evidence that suggests Love could have forged Cobain’s suicide note. There are opinions offered that Cobain ingested way too much heroin on the day of his death to be capable of shooting himself with a shotgun. There’s the possibility that Cobain and Love’s marriage was very much on the rocks.

Writes A.V. Club: “The most damning evidence that Grant collected around this time involves the couple’s lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, who told Grant that Kurt had recently asked her to remove Courtney from his will and that Courtney had asked her to locate ‘the meanest, most vicious divorce lawyer she could find.”

But neither that “damning evidence” nor Grant’s audio recordings of Love’s disturbing telephone conversations prove murder.

Love has repeatedly denied any involvement with Cobain’s passing, though that hasn’t stopped speculation. In fact, Tom Grant, a private investigator hired by Love when Cobain disappeared from a Los Angeles rehab facility shortly before his suicide, has stated, “Love was involved in a conspiracy in the death of Kurt Cobain.”

6. Novelist Paula Fox was her Grandmother

Love鈥檚 biological grandmother is novelist Paula Fox, but Love鈥檚 mother Linda Carroll had been given up for adoption right after she was born, and Love didn鈥檛 find out who her grandmother was until much later in life. The two were not close, in part because of the fact that Fox wouldn鈥檛 tell Love who her grandfather is. In what could be a steamy twist, Love believes it might be actor Marlon Brando. Her evidence? Love has said, 鈥淚f you look at me before my first nose job I kind of look like Marlon Brando.鈥�

Paula fox was abandoned as a girl by her parents, a single mother before age 20, Fox used the most finely crafted prose to write again and again about breakdown and disruption, what happens under the 鈥渟urface of things.鈥�

Her work was out of print for years, but she enjoyed a late-life revival thanks to the admiration of such younger authors as Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem.

Love鈥檚 protracted investigation evidently irked Fox, who told the Observer in 2013: 鈥淪he鈥檚 awful, she鈥檚 awful. She鈥檚 terrible! I met with her for an hour, and the hour was like an hour in the devil鈥檚 pocket, for both of us.鈥�

7.  Courtney Loves Equality

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A known human rights activist as well as champion for gender, racial and sexual equality, Love has spent the majority of the last 10 years doing humanitarian work around the world. She works with charities and non-profits working to improve the quality of life for those who find themselves on the 鈥渟ocial outside.鈥�

From the beginning of her career until now, Love has always had a strong voice that advocates for inclusiveness and equality. And she isn鈥檛 slowing down, even as she moves into a more mature and settled phase of her life. Her first husband was a transvestite punk rocker.

8.  Courtney Love’s  Family Tree is Complicated

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Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison and grew up mainly in Portland, Oregon. Her mother, psychotherapist Linda Carrol, was rumored to be the daughter of Marlon Brando. Love鈥檚 father, Hank Harrison, worked as a publisher and briefly acted as the manager of the Grateful Dead.

After her parents divorced, Love moved with her mother to a commune in Marcola, Oregon. She was later adopted by her stepfather, Frank Rodriguez. She also gained two half-sisters and an adopted brother. However, another half-brother of Love鈥檚 died as a baby from a heart defect. Moreover. Love鈥檚 mother later divorced Rodriguez and moved the family to New Zealand.

Love鈥檚 mother, Linda Carroll, is the biological daughter of author Paula Fox, who gave her up for adoption. When Carroll was conceived, Fox was living with acting Coach Stella Adler 鈥� as was a then-unknown Marlon Brando. Neither ever confirmed nor denied paternity, but Love called the theory 鈥渧ery probable鈥� in a since-deleted Facebook post after Fox鈥檚 death.

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9. Courtney Love Used Heroin while Pregnant

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For years, Love vehemently denied she had used heroin during her 1992 pregnancy. The rumor started after a Vanity Fair article quoted her talking about doing heroin “for a couple of months” while expecting. Love responded to the criticism by claiming her quotes were inaccurate distortions and later threatened the author of the piece at an Oscars after-party in 1995.

Years of conflicting statements have let the music world and fans wonder whether or not she had actually used drugs while carrying Frances Bean Cobain, but she admits in the documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, that she did take the risk. “I used it once then stopped,” she says in the documentary. “I knew she would be fine.”

Love’s battle with substance abuse is well documented, but this is the first time that she has admitted to using the drug while pregnant with Frances, who is now 29.

10. Courtney Love is no Stranger to Legal Problems

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On a Qantas flight in 1995 Love was asked to remove her feet from the window adjacent to her first-class seat, Love objected and asked those in the vicinity if her feet were offending anyone. When threatened with arrest, Love responded by saying, “You are one mean f*cking stewardess.” Upon arrival, she was arrested, strip-searched, and charged with intimidation of a flight crew and endangering an aircraft. After two days of airport detention, a court let her off with a $500 fine.

Love was arrested at Heathrow Airport in February 2003 because she flew into a rage when an acquaintance was not allowed to accompany her into the first-class cabin during a flight from LA to London. The disruption was serious enough to prompt the captain to request that law enforcement meet the plane when it disembarked. Love was led off of the aircraft and into a waiting police car.

In October 2004, Love went to the home of her ex-boyfriend Jim Barber and attacked a woman she found inside. Kristin King, the then-romantic partner of Barber, said she was sleeping in Barber’s living room when Love entered. Seeing King on the couch, Love picked up a whiskey bottle and dumped it on King. She then threw a lit candle, sat on King and dug her fingernails into King’s skin. Love plead guilty to misdemeanor assault, was given three years of probation, and was forced to pay restitution to King.