Courtney Love

Courtney Love Michelle Cobain (born July 9, 1964), better known as Courtney Love, is an American rock musician and actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole. Rolling Stone has called her "the most controversial woman in the history of rock." Love is the widow of Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), lead singer of the band Nirvana. With him she has one daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

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Early life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of onetime Grateful Dead manager and publisher Hank Harrison and well-known therapist Linda Carroll (née Risi). She is thought to have added Love to her own name later in life. Love's mother was born to writer Paula Fox but given up for adoption to an Italian American couple who raised the (Jewish-born) daughter Catholic . Love spent her childhood with her mother as she wandered through four husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon and at boarding school in Ne...[read more about Courtney Love's biography]

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