Courtney Love seeking $250m of“lost” Nirvana money

Wed 12th Oct, 2011 in International News

An interview with Courtney Love in Vanity Fair has detailed her obsession with tracking down the $250 million she claims she’s owed by Nirvana.

Love contacted Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales hoping that Sales could help her figure out what had become of the alleged lost Nirvana millions. Love told Sales that “We could never find our money. We had $135,000 in our bank account. They said if he would go to Lollapalooza he would make $11m. Do you think Kurt would have killed himself if he had known he had $54m?”

Sales reports that Love’s home is “command central for research on ‘the fraud’”, with “miscellaneous assistants mak[ing] copies and send[ing] faxes related to ‘the fraud’.” Jonathan Daniel, Love’s music manager explains that “What’s heartbreaking to me is that she’s very capable of earning seven figures easy without any help from Nirvana right now, but it’s hard for her to work or for others to want to work with her when she’s so consumed with fraud.”,

The Hole frontwoman also claims that Kurt Cobain attempted suicide several times before succeeding in 1994 and that she’s still angry about his suicide: “You think? If he came back right now I’d have to kill him for what he did to us. I’d fucking him – and then I’d kill him.”

She also spoke to Sales about her parenting failures with Frances Bean, claiming that her daughter “fucking loved those Broadway musicals”, was teased as ‘crack baby’ at school and wanted to star in a Nickelodeon tween show.

However Frances’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has refuted these claims in an email to Vanity Fair that notes that “the statements about [Frances’s] schooling are inaccurate…. The statements about her career desires, theater camp, show business, Nickelodeon, and the scripts are not accurate.”

Courtney’s ‘no holds barred’ memoir is due for release next year