Courtney Love may have deleted her garbage-filled Twitter account, but she’s still on Facebook trying to vent her crazy on the world. Love wrote about recently losing custody of her 17 year-old daughter, Frances Bean, to the mother and sister of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. According to Courtney it’s all about Frances wanting to have access to her inheritance, at least I think that’s what she means. It’s always hard to tell with her:
She writes, “I hate to sound cold but any kid of mine who pulls this s— has lost her position… she was deceptive, she lied and she’s lying to herself… My
daughter is not always honest.”Love also insists her daughter isn’t as rich as she thinks she is: “The fact is fbc [Frances Bean Cobain] is deluded. She thinks she has all this money. The point is I have all the money she has.
“Frances is clearly deluded that she can buy her grandmother a small house in la [Los Angeles]. I’d love to see how that works. They’ll incubate her (sic) til shes 18 and then have her sign all the (sic) indnemofications.
“Don’t worry, Frances is a wonderful kid, she’s got bad people around her and wants it both ways. You could’ve asked for emancipation… you realise this will put you in juvenile family circus three times in your little life? I love you and always will unconditionally.”
[From MSN Wonderwall]
So it’s Frances who is being deceptive because she wants access to her inheritance, which her mom says she’s never going to hand over. According to Bill Zwecker in the Chicago Sun Times, Courtney is dipping into her daughter’s money to buy drugs and that’s only part of the reason that Frances is bailing. There’s also the whole “mom is bombed out of her mind” issue.
My sources tell me the request for the change in custody actually was initiated by Frances Bean herself, who turns 18 in August.
According to documents originally revealed by TMZ, custody of Cobain has been handed over to her grandmother and Kurt Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, and her aunt and his sister, Kimberly Dawn Cobain.
Along with recent behavior ”even more crazy and erratic than usual,” there reportedly were significant, unexplained discrepancies in various accounts Love handled on behalf of her daughter — heir to an enormous fortune due in large part to ongoing Nirvana royalties. The fact that many of the checks were made out to “cash” added to speculation that Love used the funds to purchase drugs.
”For example, Courtney would suddenly bolt from a conversation, run outside — sometimes barely dressed — and jump in her car and drive away,” a longtime, long-suffering friend and former business associate of Love’s told me Tuesday.
Another source stressed that there are signs Love — who long has battled drug and alcohol addiction problems — recently was taking large amounts of prescription drugs ”like Xanax and Vicodin . . . enough to kill a horse.”
[From The Chicago Sun Times]
Remember when Courtney claimed last year that a crime syndicate had lifted $72 million from her accounts by stealing her late husband’s identity? That could have happened, but it’s just as likely that she somehow squandered, misplaced or miscalculated a massive fortune. Good for Frances for getting out when she had a chance. I hope that her money is kept far away from her drug-addicted mom. Time will tell whether Frances handles her finances better. Bad things can happen when 18 year-old kids suddenly have millions of dollars in the bank. Buying grandma a small house usually isn’t one of them, though.
Header image is of Frances out in NY on 8/20/09. Credit: Fame Pictures
Well, she definately paid for more plastic surgery because her nose has changed yet again.
Normally I would say this is a private matter, esp since FBC is underage. But Love seems to want to make it public …
I can only imagine what it’s like to have a mom so crazy and drug addicted. Must be tough!
Sounds like my mother, you can see how AWESOME I turned out.
Frances Bean must be one hell of a kid to have turned out so well. Other than the rant on…was it Lohan or Miley?…you never hear much about her. There aren’t any pictures of her flashing her bits or partying at the clubs or doing anything remotely close to the f’ed up things her mom does. She was an infant when her dad killed himself, has the legacy of his genius to live up to, has the legacy of her mom’s crazy to live down…seems like she must have her sh!t together to be even somewhat coherent, given the life she was born into. I hope once she turns 18 she can really take full control of her life and separate herself from her family.
Actually it all makes sense now. I had wondered why Frances would ask her grandmother and aunt to take her, rather than just get emancipated at 17.
If all she wanted to do was stop Courtney from raiding her inheritance, simply removing Courtney as her guardian was the easiest and fastest way to do it.
Team Frances Bean!
Blaming her problems on her underage daughter in a public forum? Way to go, mom. And although I’m glad she’s covering up, is that a hair salon smock she’s wearing? How embarrassing for Tom Ford to be photographed with that wretch of a woman.
What a mess. I feel for that kid, hope she turns out alright. Love is a disaster, I’m amazed she’s ever had custody at all. Hopefully the grandmother and aunt have been a good influence.
Why didn’t she legally emancipate herself from her druggie mom?
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, which is sad. Two strung out parents doesn’t give much hope for her genetically.
@Green is Good – I had wondered that, too, but in order to emancipate herself, she would have had to go through a bunch of extra legal hoops.
She’ll be 18 in a year, anyway, so the fastest and easiest way to get her mother to stop raiding her inheritance is just to get the custody arrangement changed.
That poor little girl.
“…has lost her position.”
What “position,” the sanest person in the house?
Thank goodness she looks like her dad. She might look like her mom as well, but I don’t know/remember what her ORIGINAL face looks like (and I doubt Love does either).
Poor kid has so much focus on her for just being who she is, that has to be though, I suppose have Courtney for a mum is probably, ahem, character building.
Anyone else think there’s a little something Angela Chase-esque about FBC?
holy hell. had no idea the kid requested a custody change herself. that is smart and brave as well. she must be one “old” teenager – meaning, i’m sure her life experiences are well beyond her years.
She lost her back and 2003 but then regained custody. I can see how Love regained custody of FB when she sort of got her act together because the court wants children to be with their parents if possible. However, I don’t understand why they let her control the finances. They should have ordered that it be held in trust and had an impartial trustee appointed to manage the money.
Viper-I’m with you! She’s sounds like MY mother too! Has to have the last word at ANY cost and is always the victim. My mother betrayed me horribly by posting an email fight we had and CHANGED my words, forwarded it to my other family memebers and friends she didn’t even know, and at the end wrote that I wasn’t healthy mentally to be caring for my children. Her and Courtney Love must have went to the same class of “How to Backstab and Ruin Your Relationship with Your Daughter for Life 101” class?
Checks Made out in cash to deposit funds into a different accounts, I don’t believe all this money was spent on drugs and plastic surgery, maybe hush money to people who killed Kurt Cobain, but most of the money was probably re-deposited into a untraceable Swiss bank account under a dummy corporation. This is the only reason why Frances revoked courtney’s custody.
Facebook should close her account, for printing such malicious lies about her daughter. Who is going to believe anything that Courtney Love has to say? When was the last time she was sane or sober enough to make any sense? Good for Frances to get as far away from her mother as possible, and she should get on with her life without her unless her mother gets help.
Totally not on Love’s side, but Frances does seem to be a manipulator. What chance, really does she have not to be with the blood running through her veins?
I think that everyone around the Kurt Cobain legacy has dollar signs in their eyes: His mother, His daughter and that skank Love. While granny may care for her grandaughter, she may also be looking at an economic perk by taking the child in. Frances is looking at making sure she gets her money, which she is entitled to, and should have before her mother ruins it all for her.
It has been a sad situation since day one for Frances. I think she is a mixed up kid, rightfully so, but I also think she has an entitlement streak a mile long (Train controversy a few weeks back, running off about other celeb kids) and will probaly not be terribly unlike her parents later on in life. Only time will tell.
The Mother of the Year strikes again.
It’s too bad her daughter is forced to be the adult in this relationship.
If anyone is delusional, lying and manipulating, it’s Courtney Love. The custody order specifically states that the guardians – Kurt’s mom and sister – do NOT have authority over Frances’ trust. In fact, nobody is allowed to even TOUCH the trust until Frances turns 18.
This is your brain on drugs, kids.
As the daughter of an addict and an enabler, I take offense to the posters that are saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” and “with that blood running through her veins”… Anyone can become an addict. Personally I relate to frances. At the age of 6 I found my father unconscious and in a pool of vomit from overdose. It was the first in a long line of overdoses… My grandfather was a very wealthy man, and I am fortunate enough to have the financial means to not work. (I am a trust fund baby) So I have the money and the family history to easily be a horror story of out of control drug abuse, but I have never, ever even tried a drug. I truly belive its because of what I saw as a child. Your experiences shape who you become, and frances seems very old for her years, I like to think she would be beyond the drug using. Yes, she can go either way, but I think its wrong to judge a child based on the sins of her parents. We are all more than our dna, and frances deserves to be judged on her own merit rather than the sickness of her parents.
Well said tfb!
Given the age and the genetics, I tend to think that FBC is, indeed, manipulative. However, in all likelihood her mom is as well.
I think little miss Cobain is not as innocent as she first looks, but it’s better for her to be away from Love at the moment, if any of this is true, and I believe it probably is.
@tfb I wholeheartedly agree that saying she would turn out to be an addict is ridiculous. I also read today that she got a restraining order against her mother, so even the courts agree that she doesn’t need to be in contact with her mother at all.
I honestly believe Courtney killed Kurt. I was reading an article about courtney wrote by a privite Investigator that Courtney hired. I will post the link….
http://www.cobaincase.com
i agree team frances i hope wendy takes her far far away from her crazy mother
ditto @ tfb
What a shameful sack of trash. Backstabbing her own child for all the world to read. I knew Courtney was nuts and wasted, but she is also a disgusting soulless troll. If I was Frances I would never speak to her again.
How about this line: “you realise this will put you in juvenile family circus three times in your little life?”
Good heavens!! Courtney, those horrible incidents were YOUR fault!
Eileen, my mother is that very same sort of evil!
I’ve very recently accepted the fact that I have to cut her out of my life completely, which has meant losing a lot of other people too, but I feel SO much better. I feel like an enormous cold lump has been lifted off my heart.
Also, forty years of trying to build a relationship is PLENTY long enough to bash your head against a wall.
Rawks *salute* I know what it’s like growing up in a chaotic environment and I think that by taking charge, Frances is showing that over time, she’ll have less responsibilities because she won’t be the punching bag/enabling parent she’s been for so long. After stuff like that gets out of your way, you realize how simple life really is and you appreciate it more.
Going from domestic chaos to coming home to a quiet place is paradise, and after dealing with so much drama, just having a job, bills, and hobbies/volunteering is like stepping on a well worn path and easy going.
CB Rawks: YEP, totally right there with ya! Once she did that, it was strange and weird but I suddendly felt a huge release because I realized that it really isn’t ME. She’s messed up and no matter what I do or say, it won’t help or fix things. I had to cut her out of my life. It was the hardest thing I ever did, but dealing with her my whole life…. I knew that to be mentally healthy and happy for my kids and family, I had to give up the horrible mindf#ck she spoonfed me for 27 years. There was nothing I could to do make our relationship better and it was a HIGE relief of guilt for me after trying so hard for so long!
Sigh – If you take a peek at the liner notes for one of the Hole records (I think on Live through this?) there is a photo of a young Courtney, around 10 – FBC is actually a spitting image. Tried to find the photo but couldn’t.
Proof that at one point, she was a pretty, chubby cheeked little kid before she became such a cracked out mess. (C-Love that is)
Good for her! Ovbiously I don’t know FBC but I agree, how bad could she be if she’s almost NEVER in the tabloids. Seems to lead a pretty quiet life. I think she looks pretty in those pics.
1. Crack-induced paranoia makes use of Facebook. Classy, darling. Really.
2. “…Frances is a wonderful kid, she’s got bad people around her …” Yeah, like “Mother”.
Eileen, it’s like you’re my long lost conjoined twin. 🙂
Have a lovely Christmas and a wonderful future.
And you also, Sakota. 🙂
I feel for her. She had had it rough and I have been hoping her entire, life that she would over come her hurdles and turn out as amazing as her father. He had problems and he did drugs but that man absolutely did not kill himeself and he loved Frances so much, it was made that much more tragic. My hope everyday is that she will one day ask. She is the only one with the ability to reopen his case and clear the air about his death. He was not who they claim he was and I hope she recognizes that I really truely do.