Even though she’s finally buried the hatchet with Dave Grohl after years of bad blood, Courtney Love might want to keep her distance from the ex-Nirvana drummer given new admissions the grunge-era heir has made recently.
On the eve of her first solo Australian Tour, Love has revealed that she blew nearly AU$ 29 million of “Nirvana money” in the years following Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994.
Speaking to News Corp magazine supplement Sunday Style, Cobain’s widow makes a number of revelations about her fortunes, explaining that most of the money was spent on legal fees.
“I lost about (US)$27 million – I know that’s a lifetime of money to most people, but I’m a big girl, it’s rock ‘n’ roll, it’s Nirvana money, I had to let it go,” says the 50-year-old former Hole leader.
When quizzed about her current financial situation, Love added: “I make enough to live on, I’m financially solvent, I focus on what I make now.”
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Despite burning through nearly $30m, Love defends how she’s “protected” the Nirvana legacy from being exploited by “everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games,” adding that: “We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.”
She further explains that the majority of the Nirvana fortune was spent on settling various lawsuits and is still engaged in a number of libel cases, many which she blames for her addiction to prescription drugs.
“It makes me crazy, it makes me write long, unintelligible emails and get on Twitter and say something nasty and then I get sued,” she tells Sunday Style. One example being when she was sued by former lawyer Rhonda Holmes for a post accusing her of being “bought off” in a fraud case involving the estate of the late Cobain.
As NME reports however, Love won the eight-day long case earlier this year, with the judge ruling that Love’s tweets were not defamatory.
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Other revelations from the interview include Love claiming she’d written the nasty note found on Cobain’s body by Seattle Police that caused headlines in May, saying it was “obvious” it was her handwriting, as well as revealing the age that Frances Bean Cobain will have to be in order to access to her father’s estate.
Love says: “There’s this myth out there – put out by Frances’ lawyers – that Frances runs the catalogue, which is absolute nonsense. When she’s 40, she becomes a member of the board and she has a vote, but not now.”
The controversial frontwoman begins her eight-date Australian tour tomorrow night in Perth in support of her new double A-side single, You Know My Name/Wedding Day.
Courtney Love Australian Tour 2014
*Pre-sale tickets on sale 10th June/GP Tickets on sale 16th June
13TH AUGUST – METRO CITY, PERTH
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15TH AUGUST – THEBARTON THEATRE, ADELAIDE
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16th AUGUST– FESTIVAL HALL (Reduced Mode), MELBOURNE
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18TH AUGUST – WREST POINT, HOBART
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20TH AUGUST – EATONS HILL HOTEL, BRISBANE
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22ND AUGUST – PANTHERS, NEWCASTLE
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23RD AUGUST – UC REFECTORY, CANBERRA
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24TH AUGUST – ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY
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