Just about a year ago, we started hearing crazy rants from Courtney Love. The subject this time: "Y'alls stealing my dead husband's money. Stop it! Please?" But since the accusations were coming from Courtney, they sounded something like this: "oiohun;n crackle spackle merkin gherkin sladmnf;;;awer salamander." But this time Court's back and letting a lawyer do the talking. Page Six reports:
COURTNEY Love finally sobered up and realized that some of the people handling Kurt Cobain's estate had lost all the money the Nirvana frontman had left her and their daughter, Frances Bean, her lawyer says.A team of investigators, forensic accountants and lawyers found that Cobain's estate had been looted of more than $30 million cash and up to $500 million in real estate.
"I have never seen such greed and moral turpitude. This case is going to make Bernard Madoff look warm and fuzzy," Love's lawyer, Rhonda J. Holmes, of Gordon & Holmes in San Diego, told Page Six.
"We will be filing civil cases . . . within the next 30 days. There are many, many millions missing. We've only been able to track down $30 million, but there is more. And then there is the real estate."
According to Holmes, bank accounts using Cobain, Love and Frances Bean's Social Security numbers were set up and used to buy and sell real estate across the US.
"There is now a web of homes which were bought, flipped and used to launder money — up to $500 million worth," Holmes said. "Any of the property we can get back will be donated to people who have lost their homes in foreclosures."
Asked how this could have happened, Holmes said, "Courtney noticed the money was gone when there wasn't any left. It's no secret she struggled with substance-abuse issues, but in the last year she's taken a more serious approach to sobriety and started noticing things were wrong. She hired private investigators, accountants and me.
"We are also working with local and federal authorities," Holmes said. "When Mr. Cobain died in 1994, he left his enormously wealthy estate behind for the benefit of his mother, two sisters, a brother, his wife and young daughter. Many of those [involved with] the estate's coffers mismanaged, stole and outright looted it shamelessly."
That's sad and all, but maybe, just maybe, there's a wee possibility that the money wasn't stolen. Maybe Courtney spent it on stupid shit and forgot about it. Let's take for example this recent story from the Daily Mail:
It's a mistake any of us could make. When removal men spotted a dead bird in a matchbox at Courtney Loveís house, they assumed it was junk and threw it out.But the embryonic chick was an £8,000 artwork, and the widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain is said to be ëblazing madí at its loss.
Insiders say she has thrown a ëhissy fití and fired her assistant for failing to look after such a treasured possession.
So c'mon, Courtney, fess up. What really happened to all that money? Did you spend it on a search team to track down Bambi's remains? Because he wasn't real. Maybe that's why you're embarrassed to admit it. Plus, we bet you could've gotten a really sweet deal on the Elephant Man's bones from Michael Jackson. He's a little strapped for cash these days.
