Courtney Love

Early life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent. She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl". Love’s biological family broke up soon after her birth. During a child custody case following Love’s parents’ divorce, both her mother and one of her friends presented letters to the court implying her father had given the child, then three years old, LSD. Harrison denies this allegation and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love’s mother.

Love then spent a troubled childhood with her mother as she married and divorced three times, and temporarily settled in many hippie communes in Oregon, and various schools including Nelson College for Girls in New Zealand where she boarded. Before arriving in New Zealand, Love had been left in the United States with Shirley, a friend of her mother's, who was a therapist, while her mother, the new husband and her half-sisters se

More about Courtney Love (From Wikipedia)

Early Life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent. She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl". Love’s biological family read more...

Early Musical Career

Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as “democratic”, read more...

Marriage

Love met Kurt Cobain on January 12, 1990, in Portland, Oregon’s Satyricon club before fame hit, when the two singers still led underground rock bands. Love made advances afterwards, read more...

Live Through This Tour (1994)

Hole was struck by disaster again when bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994, just two months after Cobain's death and the new album's release. read more...

Celebrity Skin Era (1996–2000)

Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as read more...

Health, Drug Abuse And Legal Issues

In 1992, while unknowingly carrying Kurt Cobain’s child, Love admitted to taking heroin, and other drugs. This led to media questioning her on whether Frances was born addicted read more...

America’s Sweetheart (2001–2004)

In early 2004, just as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love contacted ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney asking her to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed read more...

2005–present

In June 2005, three months after being released from court-ordered drug rehabilitation, Love started recording her second solo LP, Nobody's Daughter. An anti-cocaine song entitled read more...

Family History

Love’s mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was read more...

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter read more...

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