Courtney Love Explains Weird Cobain Rant

Publicity rights now in Frances' hands until mom repays $2.75M loan

(NEWSER) - She lost custody of her daughter, Frances Bean in 2009, and in 2010 Courtney Love gave up custody of the name and likeness of Frances' father Kurt Cobain, according to court documents obtained by The Fix . The documents show that Love surrendered publicity rights for the Nirvana frontman in return for a $2.75 million loan from Frances' trust fund. Love has no say in the use of Cobain's name and likeness until the loan is repaid in full. More»

And she claims he hit on daughter Frances Bean Cobain

(NEWSER) - Courtney Love and Twitter always mix like alcohol and heavy machinery, and this time around the singer is accusing former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl of attempting to seduce her daughter, 19-year-old Frances Bean Cobain, and of being "sexually obsessed w kurt." Gawker has the tweets, which were sent out last night from Love's protected account . She starts out by tweeting to @davegrohl—who isn't even the right Dave Grohl, but rather some German guy, Gawker notes—accusing Grohl of hitting on Frances and saying she wants to kill him. More»

Courtney Love daughter denies Dave Grohl hit on her

(NEWSER) - Courtney Love's latest barrage of weird tweets has prompted a statement from her normally press-shy daughter. "While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn," said Frances Bean Cobain in response to Love's claim that her late father's one-time bandmate had hit on her. “I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I’m in a monogamous relationship and very happy," she said. "Twitter should ban my mother." Click for more stars who ran into trouble with Twitter . More»

They watched 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video in bed

(NEWSER) - Courtney Love slept with Kurt Cobain for the first time at a Days Inn in Chicago, she recalls in an excerpt from an upcoming book in New York . During their first "post-coital moment," the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came on, she says, and "I pulled away from him, because it was his video, his moment, he was the king of the fucking world." But Cobain "put his arm around me and pulled me closer. Which was symbolic, like, 'I’m letting you into my life.' That really endeared him to me." More»

She'd kill Kurt Cobain for killing himself, and more

(NEWSER) - Courtney Love is getting a lot of press for a recent Vanity Fair interview in which she says that if Kurt Cobain came back to life, she'd kill him again for committing suicide. But that's far from the only interesting thing she says. Highlights:

• The full Cobain quote: "Mad? Ya think?! If he came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us. I’d fucking kill him. I’d fuck him, and then I’d kill him. He tried to kill himself three times!"
• More on Cobain: "He OD’d at least five times. I was the fucking EMS. I was always sticking pins in his balls. I carried around Narcan," a drug used to counter the effects of a heroin overdose.