Swank Rehab Center Sues Courtney Love

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»

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.

Daughter of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love to sing with Evelyn, Evelyn

(NEWSER) - Finally, some Frances Bean Cobain news that doesn't involve custody battles or Facebook rants by her mother. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter will follow in her parents' footsteps, making her singing debut on an album coming out March 30. Evelyn Evelyn, by the band of the same name, will feature artists running the gamut from Tegan & Sara to Weird Al Yankovic, Perez Hilton reports. More»

Courtney Love continues Facebook rants, conjures Jamie Lynn Spears

(NEWSER) - Kurt Cobain’s family has been trying to take custody of Frances Bean for years, his uncle tells TMZ , because Courtney Love “can barely take care of herself”—and is certainly “not fit to take care of Frances.” As of yesterday, Love not only lost custody of her daughter—she also lost the right to contact her, thanks to a judge’s temporary restraining order, which could become permanent Jan. 5. More»