Nirvana’s former manager has hit back at claims that Kurt Cobain was murdered, dismissing such conspiracy theories as easy answers to cope with a difficult event.
Ever since Kurt Cobain’s tragic death back in April of 1994, fans have sought answers about what really happened in the grunge icon’s final hours.
While police officials ruled Cobain’s death as self-inflicted, others shared their belief that the rocker’s death was the result of foul play, going so far as to name wife Courtney Love as either the perpetrator, or the brains behind the ploy.
In fact, numerous documentaries and films have been made on the subject, with investigator Tom Grant serving as a well-known source on the matter, and Nick Broomfield’s Kurt & Courtney documentary bringing murder theories to the mainstream.
Recently, former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg called these murder theories “ridiculous”, citing Kurt Cobain’s depressed state and previous suicide attempts as reason for his belief.
Now, Goldberg has opened up about these theories once again during a signing session in Los Angeles for his new book, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain.
Check out Danny Goldberg discussing Kurt Cobain death theories:
Agreeing that Nick Broomfield’s documentary was “bottom-feeding”, Goldberg shared his distaste for Tom Grant and the theories that he helped push forward to the mainstream consciousness.
“I met Tom Grant once, and once was enough,’ Goldberg recalled. “[He] was a detective who has been spinning all these years the conspiracy theory.”
“He gave me his reasons about why he thought this was very suspicious and I said to him, ‘Don’t you think the Seattle Police Department would investigate this? It’s kind of front-page news and they’re under a lot of scrutiny.'”
“He said: ‘Oh, I know how police departments can be corrupted,'” Goldberg added. “So at that point, I stopped paying attention to him because that was to me, absurd, the implication that Courtney was somehow going to waltz into a Seattle police station and corrupt them.”
“I don’t think they would even let her into a police station. Especially in those days.”
“I just feel that was enough for me and combined with having seen [him] the week before, knowing the condition he was in, and I know [Nirvana bassist] Krist Novoselic shares this view,” Goldberg concluded. “It’s just my unalterable opinion.”
Interestingly, in the comments section of the above video on YouTube, Tom Grant himself responded to Danny Goldberg, offering the chance of a meeting to discuss the “lies” put forth by claiming Kurt Cobain’s death was not a murder.
“I’ve been totally honest and have nothing to fear,” Grant stated. “If you are being totally honest, the only thing you have to fear is the exposure of your lies.”
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