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Kurt Cobain’s Ashes Stolen from Courtney Love’s L.A. Home

6/2/08, 9:10 am EST

The remainder of Kurt Cobain’s ashes have been stolen from Courtney Love. Love was storing the ashes in a pink bear-shaped handbag that was hidden in the wardrobe closet of her Hollywood home and believes the bag was taken by a former friend. “I can’t believe anyone would take Kurt’s ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I’m suicidal,” Love said. The majority of Cobain’s ashes were spread at a New York Buddhist temple and in Washington’s Wishkah River, but Love said she kept a small amount (as well as a lock of his hair) for herself. This isn’t the first time Love has had something of her husband stolen: In March, Love alleged that thieves used Cobain’s social security number to steal several million dollars from his estate. In both cases, Love believes she knows who is responsible for the theft.

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Arijit | 6/2/2008, 11:25 am EST

This is beyond disrespect. Love’s pathetic. I can’t believe she would make a transaction of Kurt Cobain’s ashes to score some smack. There’s no other way they just ‘disappeared’, with her known history. She needs to be put away for good.

red-haired goddess | 6/2/2008, 11:45 am EST

Courtney Love does not have to sell Kurt Cobain’s ashes for money, she just recently brokered a deal for 25% of Nirvana’s catalogue for $50 million.

I love how you think there can be no other explanation for what happened to Kurt’s ashes except the one you put forth.

You make it sound as if you were just scouring the house and helping Courtney move furniture to look for the thing.

And now since you and her have looked everywhere and come up with nothing, you are now getting suspicious of her.

But you weren’t scouring the house with her, so how could be so sure of what happened.

You sound ridiculous.

And what pray-tell do you want her to be “put away for good” for? Being a bitch?

wigga wit' no aptitude | 6/2/2008, 12:02 pm EST

Karma. that’s all i’ve got to say. payback can be a bitch

TankCat | 6/2/2008, 12:14 pm EST

I’d say the odds are pretty high that Courtney sold the ashes to someone to fund her addictions.

Why | 6/2/2008, 12:15 pm EST

Earlier today I had written a post about the childish comments written about Courtney. No profane language, kept to the subject matter. And RS deleted it. Why, RS. Read the other posts here, why keep those posts “up”? Are they somehow more relevent (sp?)? Makes one wonder.

Swingline | 6/2/2008, 1:07 pm EST

Why

I’ve had that happen to me a couple of times as well. And like you, when I saw some of the ones kept, I began to wonder que pasa…
Maybe they have a moody 15-year-old moderating.

doobie keebler | 6/2/2008, 2:07 pm EST

Oy vey.

jonah | 6/2/2008, 4:19 pm EST

I don’t get how people can really feel sorry for Courtney Love… or how they can object to those who loved Kurt Cobain having strong opinions about the mess she has made of her life. It would be different if the “theft” of Cobain’s ashes were just an isolated tragic incident in an otherwise normal person’s life. Courtney love has been defiling Kurt’s grave for nearly 1 1/2 decades now, so when you connect the dots, they form a line (no pun intended) that leads to just another Courtney-ism.

jonah | 6/2/2008, 4:27 pm EST

And don’t say “oh, she just needs to get help and be supported”. She’s been to rehab more times than Britney Spears and made a mockery of that as well. At a certain point, you have to logically deduce that certain poeple are beyond rehabilitation. If the legacy of a dead husband and the future of an innocent daughter are not enough to wake you up, you do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

oli low | 6/2/2008, 8:22 pm EST

why does anyone care what Courtney Love has to say? She’s never said anything truthful about her life – why would she start now?

Smiles | 6/2/2008, 8:25 pm EST

I don’t think this is funny at all. I firmly believe that there is a person out there who can judge her or anyone else for their faults. I hope who ever stole this, will pay for their hypocrisy. I feel for Courtney and her daughter. No one deserves to go through this.

As for you people who have judged her and laughed at this tragedy, your arrogance will be paid back to you with other people’s arrogance and you will not receive mercy for your mistakes. Be careful on how you judge others.

Karma | 6/2/2008, 10:01 pm EST

She couldn’t have been too attached if she had those ashes hidden in the back of her CLOSET in a PINK BEAR PURSE.

She needs to quit acting like a spoiled teenager and wake up.

O. | 6/3/2008, 9:39 am EST

i¡ll give her the benefit of the doubt in this case, no matter how bitchie or what a mess is her life, i can’t believe she made it up or “stole” the ashes herself, its too sick.

I feel sorry for Cobain, this is a lack of respect for him problem, not a courtney teenage’s mind one

cooper | 6/3/2008, 4:50 pm EST

i hope she chokes on that freaking bear purse and dies.

Ramonef | 6/4/2008, 10:36 am EST

kinda hard to choke on something that has been stolen,,,or did you miss that part.

SVUF | 6/4/2008, 2:06 pm EST

I don’t understand in what would be gain if the person whom stole Kurt Cobain’s ashes? Who will believe the person whom stole the ashes when he/she will try to sell them!?! I thought stealing tailpipes from cars is bad, but one’s ashes!?! I know the world’s economy is in a poor condition, but come on people!! If that is the reason why the ashes were stolen in the first place.

brian | 6/4/2008, 7:21 pm EST

good riddance too bad rubbish

Mixed Feelings... | 6/5/2008, 12:03 am EST

I am a big Kurt Cobain fan, not so much of a Courtney Love fan. But I just can’t believe that, if this story is true, why someone would steal Kurts’ ashes. That’s just so disrespectful!! However, Courtney does have some problems, and sure, it’s possible that she sold Kurts’ ashes. If so, well, shame on Courtney. I feel soo sorry for Frances.

Jane | 6/5/2008, 11:36 am EST

Be suspicious of whatever she says. She’s an attention whore.

She knows the press will print whatever she tells them to.

As she herself once said, “all publicity is good publicity.”

Hopefully, this attempt was more “on topic” (since my last post was deleted…odd.)

peace. love. empathy. | 6/8/2008, 1:31 am EST

makes me wonder if courtney wasnt just high and accidentilly lost them.
hmmm…

Sean | 6/9/2008, 9:18 pm EST

BFD

heyoh | 7/13/2008, 12:11 am EST

im glad she lost the ashes, and i hope she never gets them back

notcoolatall | 7/13/2008, 7:43 pm EST

I would just like to say who cares how courtney is feeling. This robbery should be a big deal cuz come on its kurt cobains ashes. The robber probably didn’t intent to steal the ashes. How was that person suppose to know where she put them. The robber stoled clothes as well with the ashes. Courtney was stupid to leave the ashes in such a spot. The robber probably didn’t know what he or she had just taken. But the ashes are better off with someone else besides to someone who may have drove kurt to kill himself in the first place. if courtney was the one to have killed herself people would be saying courtney who? She was a hoe or in a hole? Sorry to francis for having such a screwed up mother.

wtsrongwitdawrld | 7/26/2008, 8:01 pm EST

This is a very messed up situation. To start off Courtney should have held his ashes in a safer spot than with her clothes in a closet. Second, his ashes and her daughter diserve a beter home.

wtsrngwitdawrld | 7/26/2008, 8:03 pm EST

This is a very messed up situation. To start off Courtney should have held his ashes in a safer spot than with her clothes in a closet. Second, his ashes and her daughter diserve a beter home.

Stolen Underground | 8/10/2008, 8:49 pm EST

You know what, you people leave Courtney alone. Whoever stole those ashes is probably some typcial hollywood ass who deserves the worst in this world. Would be glad to assist.

JessyMurder | 10/8/2008, 10:27 pm EST

Poor courtney. she may be a freaky drug addict but shes not horrible enough to steal her husbands ashes from. what about francis? poor kid

...... | 10/23/2008, 1:01 pm EST

Ummm so basically, i HATE courtney love, i think she or killed kurt, or she had someone else do it, because there was no finger prints on the gun that was used, and there were to many drugs in his system at the time for him even to function, the drugs prolly killed him first anyway. and another thing, one of his credit cards was being used during the 3 days that he had already past, this in itself dosent add up. and she doesnt need anymore attetion than what she already has, and like someone else said be4 she should of kept his ashes somewhere more safe. It sucks that that part of him is gone. R.I.P Kurt may your music live with us forever.

yo | 11/1/2008, 1:21 am EST

Love don’y deserve any love!!this case is still unclear,no clear proof of Jurt suicide.Kurt’s ashes have been liberated…he always like freedom…as his music

Anonymous | 11/4/2008, 8:07 pm EST

omg that is so slack who would steal some ones ashes from a widow rip kurt cobain ur still a mad musician

tahli | 11/4/2008, 8:07 pm EST

omg that is so slack who would steal some ones ashes from a widow rip kurt cobain ur still a mad musician

Truth_Seeker | 11/9/2008, 10:20 pm EST

Nobody stole his ashes

Maree Steedman | 11/18/2008, 8:53 pm EST

I always say , what goes around comes around, so look out courtney, if everything is true it will come back and bite you.
So if it does come back on you, sorry but you asked for it, selfishness remember that.

A | 11/19/2008, 10:17 am EST

Stealing is wrong!

FUCK COURTNEY LOVE | 12/22/2008, 11:57 pm EST

Probably just another stunt of hers to make it look like she didnt kill him

Death Dreamer | 1/26/2009, 3:05 pm EST

Kurt Deffinitley did NOT kill himself. look at the facts. courtney was there with him in Rome, it was her pills that were in his system. When Kurt passed (RIP) he had heroin in his system too much to be able to function. if u can find a person that can still pick up a gun and shoot it with 1.25mg per liter of heroin in there system, then maybe just maybe he could’ve done it but i seriously think courtney did it. Just look at all the facts.

hannah | 2/14/2009, 12:46 pm EST

courtney killed kurt. you just have to look onto the facts, everyone thinks that courtney killed him, but I’m so angry about that, because the seattle police didn’t care. all facts point onto a murder. it’s sad. but, anyway i love you kurt, and i will never stop loving you, you are the love of my live!
in love

Zorada | 2/19/2009, 11:32 pm EST

Courtney what comes around goes around, I’m willing to bet my life on the fact that you had something to with death of you CHILD’S FATHER. Oh wait it’s already coming around your career is in the toilet your music and voice STINKS and if weren’t for the fact that you were married to one of the greatest musicians you would be a total nothing, the only reason your famous, you killed your husband and got away with it. Honey its all down hill for you from now on,oh wait you still have his daughter. you’ll be living off of her before to long, oh wait again you already are!!!

hahaha | 3/5/2009, 6:56 pm EST

She probably ‘accidentaly’ snorted his ashes one day.

God, I hate that woman. She is biggest piece of s**t to walk the earth.

trev | 3/9/2009, 6:08 pm EST

kurt u were the bomb but i think u should of never dated courtney cause she probally got u hooked on the drugs. anyways courtney if u killed kurt u should get what u diserve

Mel | 3/14/2009, 5:54 pm EST

Its Obvious Courtney got rid of them…shes a walking killing machine…some of you might disagree with me but I think that she murdered her husband.Shes an ungrateful sl*g who should either be dead herself of put in jail…

angie!!! | 3/17/2009, 10:20 am EST

This bitch killed him…all she cares about is entertainment,sex and money…even Kurt would hate her now…i love you Kurt Cobain you’re never gone ’cause legends never die…R.I.P

olivia | 3/29/2009, 2:22 pm EST

she was the on who snuck him out of the hospital shes a known junkie im not suprised i just wish that francis can get away from a crazy b!*c# like that before shes dead to

Don't be stupid, 'kay? | 4/7/2009, 9:13 pm EST

Courtney would not kill Kurdt, they loved each other. Also, Kurt was addicted to drugs -before- meeting Courtney, that’s one of the things that brought them together. As for Kurt shooting himself with herion in his system, he had already overdosed with tons of it in his system and lived. Many of his “drug buddies” that were enterviewed said that he could substain a huge amount of drugs in his system. He probally injected the herion right before he pulled the trigger. Also, his suicide note was addressed to his childhood imaginary friend, how would Courtney have made him right about that, if she had no idea of it herself. This is just my opinion, if you want, you can believe whatever else the media and people spoon-feed you.

Rose | 4/8/2009, 8:53 am EST

no one saiys that they r suicidal…….SHE KILLED HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i luv nirvana and i no courtny SUCKS and im only 11 and i was 10 when i fuguered it out!!!!

I LUV U KURT COBAIN!!!

Good for you. Pfft. | 4/14/2009, 1:23 pm EST

Courtney Love did not kill Kurdt Cobain.

either way he is still gone... | 5/21/2009, 8:04 pm EST

This is just horrible, i feel so sorry for Courtney.

that really does suck.

and for all the people who keep saying oh yeah Courtney killed Kurt, just shut up. ok?

I’m not trying to change your point of view but its pretty ridiculous.

i honestly dont think she did, but either way you guys at the end of the day…he is still gone from this world.

and we cant do anything to make him come back. RIP KURT YOU LIVE ON FOREVER!

he is still gone continued.. | 5/21/2009, 8:07 pm EST

ok and

i dont think She killed him, but i do admit she is pretty trashy in ways.

Jimmy | 6/5/2009, 8:10 pm EST

FCL, Truth Seeker, Jane and oli low seemed to be on the right tracks.

Courtney’s publicist Alan Nierob claimed around October 2, 2008 that the ashes were never stolen and that it was an erroneous report.

Why do stories like this make big headlines, but the retractions are buried and under-reported?

Why is it not even updated in THIS article?

If she lied, why?

God, help her come to Your Light.

Zoe | 8/8/2009, 4:21 pm EST

I was just watching The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain for the second time and they said in a caption that the ashes were stolen from Love’s house. I screamed, “What?!” and jumped on the computer. I think it’s pretty horrible to do that and sick. If that is what really happened. And, that Grant detective guy did a sloppy job searching for Kurt Cobain considering Kurt was shooting up in the greenhouse while they were searching for him in the mansion. I personally think Love pushed him to shoot himself while he was doped up. Like here is a gun Kurt pull the trigger kinda of help. We will never know, because we don’t know Kurt’s limit. Love’s motive could be money.

paladin | 11/1/2009, 3:01 pm EST

What difference does it even make anymore? Kurt’s music (the thing that makes him worth remembering) is still available. Long as that holds true, things like how his likeness was used on a video game or where his ashes are seem like such non-issues.

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