Courtney Love

Quick Facts

Full Name	Courtney Love
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 9, 1964(1964-07-09)
Age	60
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Courtney Love Biography

Courtney Love is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, California, United States. Rock singer, film actress and wife of the former Nirvana musician Rock singer, movie actress, and widow of former Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. She was also the frontwoman in the rock band Hole and in 2015, she began playing Elle Dallas on the FOX series Empire.. Cobain was the lead singer in the band Hole and in the year 2015 she started playing Elle Dallas on the FOX series Empire.

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Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. A figure in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love’s career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In 2020, NME named her “one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.”

She has played a variety of Fender guitars throughout her career, including a Jaguar and a vintage 1965 Jazzmaster; the latter was purchased by the Hard Rock Cafe and is on display in New York City. Between 1989 and 1991, Love primarily played a Rickenbacker 425 because she “preferred the 3/4 neck,” but she destroyed the guitar onstage at a 1991 concert opening for The Smashing Pumpkins. In the mid-1990s, she often played a guitar made by Mercury, an obscure company that manufactured custom guitars, as well as a Univox Hi- Flier. Fender’s Vista Venus, designed by Love in 1998, was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury. During tours after the release of Nobody’s Daughter (post-2010), Love has played a Rickenbacker 360 onstage. Her setup has included Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander.

She was engaged with James Moreland on February 14 in 1989, however, they divorced after four months. She later got married to She got married to James Moreland on February 14, 1989, but they divorced four months later. She then married Kurt Cobain in 1992 and she and Kurt had a daughter together named Frances Bean Cobain. in 1992. She along with Kurt shared a daughter with the name of Frances Bean Cobain.

Courtney Love Net Worth

Courtney Love is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Courtney Love 's net worth $100 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was part of various music projects during the 1980s, such as Sugar Babydoll alongside friends Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur.

She joined Hole in 1989, and was lead vocalist and the rhythm guitarist. Hole’s second album Celebrity Skin earned them four Grammy nominations.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born on July 9, 1964, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll (née Risi) and Hank Harrison, a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead. Love’s godfather is the founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. Her mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by a prominent Italian- Catholic family in San Francisco, was later revealed to be the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox; Love’s maternal great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox. According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore’s 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast. She is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent. Love was raised Catholic.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Courtney Love height 5 ft 10 in Courtney weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Courtney Love Dating?

According to our records, Courtney Love married to Kurt Cobain , James Moreland. As of December 1, 2023, Courtney Love’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1981, she was granted a small trust fund that had been left by her adoptive grandparents, which she used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living. While there, she enrolled in courses at Trinity College, studying theology for two semesters. She would later receive honorary patronage from Trinity’s University Philosophical Society in 2010. After leaving Trinity, Love relocated to Liverpool, where she became acquainted with musician Julian Cope and his band, The Teardrop Explodes, and briefly lived in his house. “They kind of took me in”, she recalled. “I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsal.” In Cope’s autobiography Head- On, Love is referred to as “the adolescent.” After spending a year abroad, Love returned to Portland: “I thought that [going to the United Kingdom] was my peak life experience,” she said in 2011. “—that nothing else [would] happen to me again.” In 1983, she took short-lived jobs working as an erotic dancer in Japan and later Taiwan, but was deported after the club was shut down by the government.

Facts & Trivia

Courtney Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Courtney Love celebrates birthday on July 9 of every year.

Deciding to shift her focus to acting, Love enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute and studied film under experimental director George Kuchar. Love was featured in one of his short films, titled Club Vatican. In 1985 she 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. After filming Sid and Nancy in New York City, she worked at a peep show in Times Square and squatted at the ABC No Rio social center and Pyramid Club in the East Village. The same year, Cox cast her in a leading role in his film Straight to Hell (1987), a spaghetti western starring Joe Strummer and Grace Jones filmed in Spain in 1986. The film caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who featured Love in an episode of Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes. She also had a part in the 1988 Ramones music video for “I Wanna Be Sedated”, appearing as a bride among dozens of party guests.

Did Kurt Cobain Love Courtney?

Cobain and Love begin dating “I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months […] but I knew I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months,” Cobain is quoted as saying Come As You Are.

How much money does Courtney Love make from Nirvana?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Courtney Love has a net worth of $100 million, as of 2021, which is mostly derived from her ownership of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s band, Nirvana. The value of Cobain’s writing and publishing rights that she inherited are around $245 million.

What is Courtney Love's real name?

Courtney Michelle Love

Who was suing Courtney Love and Why?

Courtney Love Sued by Frances Bean Cobain’s Ex-Husband for Alleged Kidnapping & Murder Plot. Courtney Love is being sued by her daughter’s ex- husband, alleging she conspired to have him murdered over ownership of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar that was used during…

Why did Nirvana wear dresses?

“I like to wear dresses because they’re comfortable ,” Kurt Cobain told Melody Maker in December 1992. “There’s nothing more comfortable than that cozy flower pattern… It just feels comfortable, sexy and free wearing a dress.