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Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontation…
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Born 9 July 1964 · Q222071
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2026· 8 entries
“I love the concept, and I’m loving the music,”
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“Seven thousand kids in Los Angeles a year go out on the street, and forty percent of those kids are gay, lesbian, or transgender. They come out to their parents, and become homeless ... for whatever reason, I don”
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“always wanted to be a poet, but there was no money in it.”
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“The important thing for me ... is it has to look good on the page. I mean, you can love Led Zeppelin and not love their lyrics ... but I made a big effort in my career to have what”
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“s (whom they also toured with in Australia) sexualized treatment of teenage female audience members. Love told interviewers at 99X.FM in Atlanta:”
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Public attention spiked: 15,249 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 4,266, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image posted online in early February 2026 shows sex offender Jeffrey Epstein posing with singer Courtney Love.” Originated as Satire.
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2025· 1 entry
It was announced that a documentary film on Love, titled Antiheroine, was set to premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival
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2023· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked Love at number 130 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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2021· 2 entries
Love and creative director and philanthropist Julie Panebianco launched From Her To Eternity, an initiative designed to collect and categorize a physical collection of related music materials that focus on and celebrate
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Love said: There's this idea of "Courtney is punk and stuck in 1995
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2019· 2 entries
Love recorded the song "Mother", written and produced by Lawrence Rothman, as part of the soundtrack for the horror film The Turning (2020)
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Love performed a solo set at the Yola Día festival in Los Angeles, which also featured performances by Cat Power and Lykke Li
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2018· 1 entry
Stating that she had recently celebrated a year of sobriety
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2017· 2 entries
Published video “CourtneyLoveVEVO Live Stream”.
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Love accompanied the museum director Nicholas Cullinan to the GQ Men of the Year awards at the Tate Modern, calling him her "soulmate" and her "family for life"
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2015· 1 entry
The Phoenix New Times declared Love the number one greatest female rock star of all time, writing: "To build a perfect rock star, there are several crucial ingredients: musical talent, physical attractiveness, tumultuous
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2014· 13 entries
Published video “Fans On Courtney Love Part 3”.
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Published video “Courtney Love on Lyrics”.
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Published video “Courtney Love Backstage Pass ~ Part 4”.
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Published video “Courtney Love Backstage Pass ~ Part 3”.
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Published video “Courtney Love Backstage Pass ~ Part 2”.
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Published video “Courtney Love on Florals Part 4 ~ Courtney's Favorites”.
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Published video “Courtney Love ~ Backstage Pass Part 1”.
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Published video “Courtney Love on Florals Part 3 ~ How to Arrange Orchids”.
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Published video “Fans on Courtney Love - Part 2”.
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On her own label Cherry Forever Records via Kobalt Label Services
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In an interview with Pitchfork, Love commented further on the possibility of Hole reuniting, saying:
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Love debuted the song "You Know My Name" on BBC Radio 6 to promote her tour of the United Kingdom
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“I'm not going to commit to it happening, because we want an element of surprise. There's a lot of is to be dotted and ts to be crossed.”
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2013· 1 entry
Co-wrote and contributed vocals on "Rat A Tat" from Fall Out Boy's album Save Rock and Roll, also appearing in the song's music video
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2012· 1 entry
And performed alongside Aimee Mann and comedian Wanda Sykes
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2011· 1 entry
Love participated in Hit So Hard, a documentary chronicling bandmate Schemel's time in Hole
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2010· 2 entries
As a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup
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Said Love's onstage "one-liners [were] worthy of the Comedy Store"
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2009· 1 entry
Love introduced the band's frontman Gavin Friday at a Carnegie Hall event, and performed a song with him
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Rehab Demos”.
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And cited her Soka Gakkai Buddhist practice (which she began in 1988) as integral to her sobriety
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2006· 2 entries
And a documentary, The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network More4 in the fall of that year
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Love published a memoir, Dirty Blonde, and began recording her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating again with Perry and Billy Corgan
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2005· 1 entry
While she was writing a second solo album
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2004· 6 entries
Her 40th birthday, Love was arrested for failing to make a court appearance for the March 2004 charges, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, allegedly incoherent, where she was placed on a 72-hour watch
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Love appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote America's Sweetheart
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Released album “America’s Sweetheart”.
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“We choose convenience over individuality every time—every time.”
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“My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.”
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“If I see a chick playing guitar, I’m drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it’s completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.”
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2000· 2 entries
In 2000, Love publicly advocated for reform of the record industry in a personal letter published by Salon.
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Love publicly advocated for reform of the record industry in a personal letter published by Salon
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1999· 3 entries
But dropped out after nine performances; Love and Manson disagreed over production costs, and Hole was forced to open for Manson under an agreement with Interscope Records
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“I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty ... And something that could also be your first band guitar. I didn”
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Love was awarded an Orville H
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1998· 2 entries
Was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury
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Stated that Hole had "always been a pop band
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1997· 1 entry
Love and former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl formed a limited liability company, Nirvana LLC, to manage Nirvana's business dealings
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1996· 1 entry
Love made a return to acting, first in small roles in the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat and the drama Feeling Minnesota (1996), and then a starring role as Larry Flynt's wife Althea in Miloš Forman's critically ac
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1995· 2 entries
At the Lollapalooza Festival in George, Washington, Love threw a lit cigarette at musician Kathleen Hanna before punching her in the face, alleging that she had made a joke about her daughter
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Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs
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1994· 2 entries
At the Reading Festival—Love's first public performance following Cobain's death—was described by MTV as "by turns macabre, frightening and inspirational"
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Love commented "I would like to think–in my heart of hearts–that I'm changing some psychosexual aspects of rock music
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1993· 6 entries
Love and Cobain made their only public performance together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Hollywood, performing two acoustic duets of "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
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Love and husband Kurt Cobain performed an acoustic set together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Los Angeles, which raised awareness and provided resources for victims of sexual abuse
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That, "rather than simply scripted patter, Love's comments between songs [have] the natural feel of someone who is sharing her immediate feelings
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Released ep “It's Closing Soon”.
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In 1993, Love and husband Kurt Cobain performed an acoustic set together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Los Angeles, which raised awareness and provided resources for victims of sexual abuse.
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“s mental state, suggesting it was a factor in his suicide two years later. On September 8, 1993, Love and Cobain made their only public performance together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Hollywood, performing two acoustic duets of”
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1992· 1 entry
The couple's only child, a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born in Los Angeles
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1989· 2 entries
Love married Leaving Trains vocalist James Moreland in Las Vegas; the marriage was annulled the same year
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At the Satyricon nightclub in Portland, Oregon
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1988· 1 entry
And resumed work as a stripper in Oregon, where she was recognized by customers at a bar in the small town of McMinnville
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1985· 1 entry
Submitted an audition tape for the role of Nancy Spungen in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy (1986) and was given a minor supporting role by director Alex Cox
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1984· 1 entry
The two formed the group the Pagan Babies
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1981· 1 entry
Love was granted a small trust fund that had been left by her maternal grandparents
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1980· 1 entry
After which she remained staunchly estranged from her mother
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1973· 1 entry
Carroll sent Love back to Portland, Oregon, where she was raised by her former stepfather and other family friends
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1972· 1 entry
Love's mother divorced Rodríguez, remarried to sportswriter David Menely, and moved the family to Nelson, New Zealand
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1970· 1 entry
Love's parents divorced after her mother and one of her father's girlfriends testified that Hank dosed her with LSD when she was a toddler
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-07-09.
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1963· 1 entry
And the two married in Reno, Nevada after Carroll discovered she was pregnant
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