Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain formally met in a nightclub in Portland, Seattle, on 12 January 1990, but Love had apparently developed a crush on the Nirvana frontman after seeing him perform at a gig the year before.
Cobain appeared to dismiss Love’s advances at first, commenting: “I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months […] but I knew I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months.”
By the time the pair met, Love was already known for having starred in the Joe Strummer movie Straight to Hell,and Nirvana were growing in fame.
Kurt and Courtney lying in bed in Roppongi Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, during an interview, 19th December 1992. Picture: Gutchie Kojima/Shinko Music/Getty Images
When did Kurt Cobain die?
During Nirvana’s tour stop in Munich in 1994, Kurt was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe laryngitis. He was then sent to Rome for medical treatment, where he met wife Courtney Love.
According to Love, she awoke to find Cobain had overdosed on Champagne and Rohypnol. The singer was then rushed to hospital, where he stayed for five days.
After that incident, Cobain and Love had a domestic issue, whereby Love called the police to their Seattle home. Authorities confiscated three guns and some pills from Cobain, who had locked himself in a bedroom upstairs. According to Cobain, he wasn’t trying to take his own life, but was hiding from Courtney.
Love and some of Cobain’s close friends then staged an intervention to convince Kurt to seek help for his drug use and depression. After some time, Kurt finally agreed to go to rehab in LA.
Cobain then broke out of rehab and got a flight back to Seattle, but friends and family were unaware of whereabouts.
On 8 April 1994, an electrician who was installing an alarm discovered Kurt’s body at his home on Lake Washington Boulevard.
At the time of their wedding, Courtney was already pregnant with daughter Frances.
their daughter Frances Bean Cobain?
The image of the sonogram is on Nirvana’s Lithium single artwork.
Their daughter was born on 18th August 1992. The same year Frances was born, Love gave an interview with Vanity Fair, where she reportedly admitted to using heroin while pregnant, unaware of her condition. Love later claimed she had been misquoted and also stated she had stopped taking drugs upon the news of her pregnancy.
Later, the coroner report stated that Cobain had actually died on the 5 April.
Following Kurt’s death, Courtney held a vigil for her late husband on 10 April 1994.
The vigil took place at the Seattle Center, with over seven thousand mourners and fans coming to pay their respects to Kurt.
At the vigil, Love read parts of Kurt’s suicide note out to the crowd, she also handed out items of Cobain’s clothing.
Courtney also gave an interview withRolling Stone, where she explained: “I used to be able to talk to Kurt more, wherever he is. But now he’s really gone.
“I used to feel like mourning him was really selfish because it would make him feel guilty. And the best thing to do was to pray for him and show him joy, so he could feel the vibration of the joy.
“But now I know he’s dissipated, and he’s gone. There’s not anything left. Not even to talk to.”
FRANCES BEAN COBAIN WAS FAMOUS BEFORE SHE WAS EVEN BORN. THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE THE PROGENY OF TWO OF THE MOST FAMOUS ROCK STARS IN THE WORLD: KURT COBAIN AND COURTNEY LOVE.
BUT UNLIKE THE ARRIVAL OF MANY CELEBRITY BABIES, FRANCES’S BIRTH WASN’T ANTICIPATED WITH JUST EXCITEMENT AND FASCINATION, BUT ALSO CONCERN AND DISMAY. THAT’S BECAUSE KURT AND COURTNEY’S RELATIONSHIP HAD BEEN PLAGUED WITH RUMORS, EVEN ADMISSIONS, OF BAD BEHAVIOR. MANY OF THE COUPLE’S FRIENDS AND FANS WORRIED THAT COBAIN AND LOVE’S HEROIN USE WOULD RESULT IN PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS OR, WORSE, A DRUG-ADDICTED BABY. THE PAIR’S DRUG USE HAD ALREADY CAUSED FRICTION AMONG THEIR FRIENDS AND BANDMATES.
25 YEARS AGO: FRANCES BEAN COBAIN BORN TO KURT COBAIN AND COURTNEY LOVEHTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/EMBED/VLW7YCXINVW?WMODE=TRANSPARENT
COBAIN AND LOVE BECAME A COUPLE IN THE FALL OF 1991, JUST AS NIRVANA AND THE BAND’S NEVERMIND WAS BEGINNING TO EXPLODE. SOME OF THOSE CLOSE TO KURT SUSPECTED COURTNEY WAS HITCHING HER STAR TO HIS, WHILE ACCUSING HER OF GETTING COBAIN HOOKED ON HEROIN. NIRVANA BASSIST KRIST NOVOSELIC EVEN REFUSED TO ATTEND THE COUPLE’S WEDDING IN FEBRUARY 1992, REPORTEDLY BECAUSE HE WAS DISTURBED BY THEIR DRUG INTAKE.
MANY MORE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES BECAME UPSET ABOUT THE NEWLYWEDS’ HEROIN HABIT WHEN THEY LEARNED THAT LOVE HAD GOTTEN PREGNANT IN JANUARY – THE SAME MONTH THAT SHE LATER DESCRIBED GOING ON A HEROIN BINGE WITH KURT IN NEW YORK CITY WHEN NIRVANA PLAYED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. “WE DID A LOT OF DRUGS,” LOVE TOLD VANITY FAIR IN AN ARTICLE THAT SHE LATER TRIED TO DISMISS. “WE GOT PILLS AND THEN WE WENT DOWN TO ALPHABET CITY AND KURT WORE A HAT, I WORE A HAT, AND WE COPPED SOME DOPE. THEN WE GOT HIGH AND WENT TO SNL.
AFTER THAT, I DID HEROIN FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS.” ALTHOUGH LOVE WAS KNOWN TO BE PRONE TO EXAGGERATION, THOSE AROUND HER TOOK THESE CLAIMS SERIOUSLY (AND OTHERS CAME FORWARD TO LEND CREDENCE TO HER CLAIMS). SOME FRIENDS ENCOURAGED HER TO HAVE AN ABORTION TO PREVENT ANY DRUG-RELATED PREGNANCY ISSUES, BUT COURTNEY AND KURT WERE ADAMANT ABOUT KEEPING THE BABY. SUPPOSEDLY, LOVE UNDERWENT ROUNDS OF TESTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FETUS HADN’T BEEN HARMED. “KURT’S THE RIGHT PERSON TO HAVE A BABY WITH,” LOVE SAID. “WE HAVE MONEY. I CAN HAVE A NANNY. THE WHOLE FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF PREGNANCY AND BIRTH – I’M NOT INTO IT ON THAT LEVEL. BUT IT WAS A BAD TIME TO GET PREGNANT AND THAT APPEALED TO ME. BESIDES, WE NEED NEW FRIENDS.”
BUT IT WAS THE COUPLE’S OLD FRIENDS THAT STEPPED IN TO KEEP LOVE AND HER UNBORN CHILD HEALTHY. WHEN THE COUPLE ENTERED, AND QUICKLY DITCHED, REHAB FACILITIES, INDUSTRY PALS LIKE JIMMY BOYLE (THEN WORKING FOR DEF AMERICAN) TRIED TO KEEP COURTNEY AND KURT CLEAN. SOME OF THEM COMPLAINED ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT THAT TASK WAS, DESCRIBING THEIR APARTMENT AS A “SICK SCENE.” EVEN LOVE TOOK A SWIPE AT HER NEW HUSBAND IN THE PRESS FOR TEMPTING HER WITH DRUGS. “SHE WANTED TO GET OFF DRUGS,” BOYLE SAID. “I BROUGHT HER HERBS TO EASE THE KICK, SO SHE WOULDN’T FREAK OUT SO BADLY. I WAS BRINGING STUFF OVER TO HER HOUSE EVERY DAY BECAUSE IT’S A WHACKED-OUT THING TO DO TO A KID.” AMIDST THE CHAOS, THE COUPLE REMAINED EXCITED ABOUT THE FORTHCOMING ADDITION TO THEIR FAMILY. AFTER LEARNING THE BABY WOULD BE A GIRL, KURT NAMED HER FRANCES AFTER FRANCES MCKEE OF THE VASELINES. HER MIDDLE NAME BECAME BEAN AFTER THE NIRVANA SINGER DECIDED THAT SHE LOOKED LIKE A KIDNEY BEAN IN A SONOGRAM. HE ALSO MADE PAINTINGS OF THOSE ULTRASOUND IMAGES IN ANTICIPATION OF FRANCES BEAN’S ARRIVAL.
FRANCIS BEAN COBAIN
BEFORE COBAIN’S BIRTH, THERE WERE RUMORS SUGGESTING THAT HER MOTHER USED HEROIN DURING THE PREGNANCY. THIS SCANDAL INTENSIFIED WHEN VANITY FAIR PUBLISHED LYNN HIRSCHBERG’S ARTICLE “STRANGE LOVE,” WHICH ALLEGED THAT LOVE ADMITTED TO USING HEROIN EVEN AFTER LEARNING OF HER PREGNANCY.
LOVE AND KURT COBAIN MAINTAINED THAT VANITY FAIR TOOK HER WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT.EVENTUALLY, CHILD WELFARE SERVICES LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THEIR PARENTING ABILITIES.THE INVESTIGATION WAS ULTIMATELY DISMISSED, BUT NOT WITHOUT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF LEGAL WRANGLING AND FRANCES BEING REMOVED FROM HER PARENTS’ CUSTODY FOR A SHORT TIME, BEGINNING WHEN SHE WAS TWO WEEKS OLD.
ON APRIL 1, 1994, FRANCES VISITED HER FATHER AT THE EXODUS RECOVERY CENTER, A REHAB CENTER IN MARINA DEL REY, CALIFORNIA, WHERE THEY PLAYED TOGETHER. THIS WAS THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HER FATHER ALIVE.
ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 5, 1994, KURT COBAIN WAS FOUND DEAD AT HIS HOME IN SEATTLE.
A FINAL CEREMONY WAS ARRANGED FOR HIM BY HIS MOTHER ON MAY 31, 1999, ATTENDED BY BOTH LOVE AND TRACY MARANDER. FRANCES WAS SUBSEQUENTLY RAISED BY HER MOTHER, AUNTS, AND PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER.
SHE SPENT HER EARLY YEARS IN SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES, AND WAS PLACED IN HER GRANDMOTHER’S CARE FOR A TIME AFTER HER MOTHER’S DRUG-RELATED ARREST IN OCTOBER 2003. HOURS AFTER THE ARREST, LOVE OVERDOSED ON PAINKILLERS. LOVE REGAINED CUSTODY OF FRANCES IN 2005.
MODELING
IN AUGUST 2006, SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR ELLE MAGAZINE IN HER FATHER’S FAMOUS BROWN CARDIGAN AND PAJAMA PANTS AS PART OF AN ARTICLE FEATURING CHILDREN OF ROCK STARS IN THEIR PARENTS’ CLOTHING. SHE EXPLAINED, “I WORE HIS PAJAMAS BECAUSE HE GOT MARRIED IN THEM TO MY MOM IN 1992 IN HAWAII SO I THOUG
HT THEY WOULD BE CUTE IF I WORE THEM TODAY. HE WAS TOO LAZY TO PUT ON A TUX SO HE GOT MARRIED IN PAJAMAS!” IN FEBRUARY 2008, SHE APPEARED IN A PHOTO SPREAD FOR HARPER’S BAZAAR DRESSED AS EVITA.
COBAIN MODELED FOR HEDI SLIMANE FOR A WEB PHOTO SERIES RELEASED AUGUST 2, 2011.
IN 2016, SHE MODELED ALONGSIDE ALICE GLASS IN A SPREAD FOR SCHÖN! MAGAZINE SHOT BY FLORIA SIGISMONDI.
IN 2017, SHE WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE FACE OF MARC JACOBS’S SPRING/SUMMER 2017 CAMPAIGN, SHOT BY DAVID SIMS.
IN SEPTEMBER 2005, 13-YEAR-OLD COBAIN GAVE HER FIRST INTERVIEW, TO TEEN VOGUE, IN WHICH SHE DISCUSSED HER PERSONAL STYLE AND MENTIONED HER PARENTS.
ANOTHER APPEARED IN THE JANUARY 2006 ISSUE OF I-D, IN WHICH SHE LAMENTED TABLOID PORTRAYALS OF HER MOTHER: “WHEN YOU SEE A LOT OF LIES ABOUT HER IN THE TABLOIDS … IT CAN BE HURTFUL.”
ON DECEMBER 11, 2009, A CALIFORNIA SUPERIOR COURT IN LOS ANGELES APPOINTED WENDY O’CONNOR, HER PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, AND KIMBERLY COBAIN, HER FATHER’S SISTER, AS COBAIN’S TEMPORARY CO-GUARDIANS.
ON DECEMBER 16, 2009, A JUDGE HAD ISSUED A RELATED TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER PROHIBITING LOVE FROM HAVING ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH HER DAUGHTER.
THE PAPERS WERE FILED UNDER THE HEADING “MOTION TO SEAL ALL DOCUMENTS… RELATING TO A MINOR AND ALLEGATIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE”. AMONG THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE FRANCES COBAIN’S MEDICAL RECORDS, ACCORDING TO THE FILING.
ON AUGUST 18, 2010, COBAIN INHERITED 37% OF HER LATE FATHER’S ESTATE.COBAIN, NOT LOVE, NOW CONTROLS THE PUBLICITY RIGHTS TO HER FATHER’S NAME AND IMAGE.
IN 2011, COBAIN BOUGHT HER FIRST HOME, A $1.8 MILLION SPANISH-STYLE VILLA IN WEST HOLLYWOOD, A FEW BLOCKS FROM SUNSET STRIP.
COBAIN HAS SAID SHE IS NOT A FAN OF NIRVANA OR OTHER GRUNGE BANDS, INSTEAD PREFERRING THEIR CONTEMPORARIES OASIS, THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE AND MERCURY REV, BUT SHE HAS SAID SHE LIKES THE SONGS “TERRITORIAL PISSINGS” AND “DUMB”
BUT TO MANY NIRVANA FANS, SHE’LL ALWAYS BE KURT’S BABY GIRL, WHO SOMEHOW ARRIVED HEALTHY INTO A SITUATION THAT WAS ANYTHING BU READ MORE:
COBAIN AND MUSICIAN ISAIAH SILVA MARRIED ON JUNE 29, 2014,THOUGH THE WEDDING DATE WAS WIDELY MISREPORTED AS AROUND SEPTEMBER 2015.
KURT HAD 2 YEARS WITH FRANCIS, BUT LOOKING AT PICTURES HE ADORED HERHTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/EMBED/ALTFT4XYMTM?WMODE=TRANSPARENT
KURT WITH FRANCIS AT MTV AWARDS FIGHTING OVER COOKIE..
ALTHOUGH SHE WASN’T DUE UNTIL SEPTEMBER, FRANCES BEAN COBAIN WAS BORN WITH LITTLE INCIDENT ON AUG. 18, 1992 AT CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER IN LOS ANGELES. TO THE RELIEF OF FANS AND FRIENDS ALIKE, THE BABY WAS HEALTHY. R.E.M.’S MICHAEL STIPE AND ACTRESS DREW BARRYMORE WERE CHOSEN AS HER GODPARENTS. THAT INITIAL SENSE OF SECURITY WOULD BE SHORT-LIVED. WITHIN WEEKS OF THE BIRTH, FRANCES WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM LOVE AND COBAIN BY CHILD SERVICES BASED ON MEDIA REPORTS OF AN INAPPROPRIATE HOME LIFE FOR A NEWBORN. THE CASE WAS EVENTUALLY DROPPED, WITH THE LITTLE GIRL RETURNED TO HER PARENTS. AND THEN, WHEN FRANCES WAS ONLY A YEAR AND A HALF, KURT TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. IN HIS SUICIDE NOTE, HE PLEADED, “PLEASE KEEP GOING COURTNEY FOR FRANCES. FOR HER LIFE WILL BE SO MUCH HAPPIER WITHOUT ME.” FRANCES’S CHILDHOOD STRUGGLES DIDN’T END THERE, SPECKLED WITH INCIDENTS THAT PLACED HER IN THE CARE OF HER GRANDMOTHER (KURT’S MOM, WENDY O’CONNOR) WHEN LOVE WAS SEEN AS AN UNFIT PARENT. THEY WERE LATER REUNITED AND, REPORTEDLY, MOTHER AND DAUGHTER HAVE MAINTAINED A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP AS THE LATTER BECAME AN ADULT. MOSTLY RAISED OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT, FRANCES HAS SLOWLY ENTERED THE PUBLIC EYE IN RECENT YEARS, WORKING AS A MODEL, AN ARTIST AND AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF A 2015 DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HER DAD, MONTAGE OF HECK.
In Cobain’s case, the Seattle Police Department lifted 4 prints from the shotgun, 2 prints from the casing and shells, and 1 print from the pen. After the analysis, all of them resulted in no legible latent prints. This means that there were indeed 7 prints in the scene, but they were not clear enough to be identified. Grant says that since the shotgun was handled by at least 3 people, (the seller, the buyer, and Cobain), and none of them can be identified, a person wiped the fingerprints off the weapon. If that was the case, no latent fingerprints would have been lifted at all. With all the information collected above, it is more plausible to think that:SWEAT: sweaty palms due to the usual nervousness in suicidal people, damaged fingerprints.ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT: raindrops destroy prints, and Cobain’s corpse lay dead for 3 days, exposing the prints to changes in temperature and humidity.CONTACT: the recoil of the shotgun when fired leaves a smudge, and friction of the casing and clothes while carrying the shotgun destroys prints too.POOR HANDLING: in 1994, the use of plastic bags to collect evidence was frequent, damaging the plastic pen because of evaporation
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