Courtney Love Biography
Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, songwriter and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana Frontman Kurt Cobain. In 2020, NME named her “one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.”
How old is Courtney Love? – Age
The American singer is 56 years old as of 9th July 2020. She was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Who are Courtney Love Parents? – Father and mother
The American singer was the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead. Her parents met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie in 1963.
Her mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by a prominent Italian-Catholic family in San Francisco, was the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox; Love’s godfather is the founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. Love’s maternal great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox. According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore’s 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast.
The singer is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent. The singer spent her early years in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, until her parents’ 1970 divorce. In a custody hearing, her mother, as well as one of her father’s girlfriends, testified that Hank had dosed Courtney with LSD when she was a toddler. Though he denied the claim, full custody was awarded to her mother.
In 1970, Carroll relocated with Love to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon where they lived along the Mohawk River while Caroll completed her psychology degree at the University of Oregon. There, her mother remarried to Frank Rodríguez, who legally adopted Love. Rodríguez and Carroll had two daughters, and a son who died in infancy of a heart defect when Love was ten; they also adopted a boy.
Who is Courtney Love married to? – Spouse
The American singer was a married woman. She was once married to James Moreland in 1989, they later divorced only after few months together the same year. She then married to Kurt Cobain in the year 1992 to 1994 as her second husband. They later divorced in 1994 after only two years of marriage. Love gave birth to her daughter namely; Frances Bean Cobain with her second husband.
Courtney Love Career
The American singer had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene. After briefly being in a juvenile hall, she spent a year living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and pursuing an acting career.
She appeared in supporting roles in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987) before forming the band Hole in Los Angeles with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon, while their second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales.
In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Milos Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flant (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole’s third album, celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards.
The singer continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America’s Sweetheart, in 2004. The next several years were marked by publicity surrounding Love’s legal troubles and drug relapse, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album. That project became Nobody’s Daughter, released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup.
Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series sons of Anarchy and Empire. In 2020, she confirmed she was writing new music.
Love has also been active as a writer; she co-created and co-wrote three volumes of a manga, Princess Ai, between 2004 and 2006, and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (2006).
In October 2017, shortly after the Harvey Weinstein Scandal first made news, a 2005 video of Love warning young actresses about Weinstein went viral. In the footage, while on the red carpet for the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson, She was asked by Natasha Leggero if she had any advice for “a young girl moving to Hollywood”; she responded, “If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four seasons [hotel], don’t go”. She later tweeted, “Although I wasn’t one of his victims, I was eternally banned by for speaking out”.
The same year, she was cast in Justin Kelly’s biopic JT LeRoy, opposite Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.. In March 2018, the singer appeared in the music video for Marilyn Manson’s “Tattooed in Reverse,” which she followed with an April 5, 2018 guest-judge appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
In December 2018, Love filed and was awarded a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, who had acted as her manager for the previous six years, alleging verbal abuse and harassment. Her daughter, Frances, and sister, Jaimee, were also awarded restraining orders against Lutfi. In January 2019, a Los Angeles County judge extended the three-year duration of the order to a total of five years, citing Lutfi’s apparent tendency to “prey upon people.”
On August 18, 2019, Love performed a solo set at the Yola Día festival in Los Angeles, which also featured performances by Cat power and Lykke Li.
On September 9, Love garnered press attention when she publicly criticized Joss Sackler, an heiress to the Sackler family OxyContin fortune, after she allegedly offered Love $100,000 to attend her fashion show during New York Fashion Week. In the same statement, Love indicated that she had relapsed into opioid addiction in 2018, stating that she had recently celebrated a year of sobriety. On November 21, a new track, “Mother,” was released on the internet, as part of the soundtrack for the upcoming horror film The Turning (2020).
The singer appears as the vocalist on the track, written by Lawrence Rothman, who also served as producer. In January 2020, Love was honored with the Icon Award at the NME Awards, deemed by the publication as “one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.” The following month, she confirmed she was writing a new record in London, which she described as “really sad… [I’m] writing in minor chords, and that appeals to my sadness.”
Courtney Love Net worth
The American singer has an estimated net worth of $100 million, mostly from what she inherited from her husband, but since she gave it all to Frances, it is unclear how she’s still worth a good sum of money.
