Courtney Love loses her daughters' legal guardianship

Courtney Love loses custody of Frances Bean Cobain: court

Courtney Love has lost legal guardianship of Frances Bean Cobain, her daughter with the late Kurt Cobain, according to reports

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Beleaguered US rocker Courtney Love has reportedly lost legal guardianship custody of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean, child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, according to court documents.

A Los Angeles judge passed custody of the17-year-old Frances has been put in the care of her grandmother and aunt -- Cobain's mother and sister -- according to the documents published on the TMZ.com celebrity website.

Reasons for the custody battle are unknown, but it isn't the first time Love, 45, has experienced such problems -- Bean was taken under the care of her grandmother in 2003 after Love was arrested for possession of drugs without a prescription.



Love has had a long history of debt, arrests over drugs and parole violations since Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, near the height of the grunge-rock band's success.

Love has not released an official statement on the ruling, but TMZ reports that her lawyer, Keith Fink, told the website: ""Courtney wants to say she loves her daughter and she's the most important thing in her life."

The temporary guardianship was established on Friday, TMZ reported. Love was not present at the hearing. The new guardians are relatives of Frances's father, but allegedly do not have power over the trust established for Frances after the Nirvana frontman's death.

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"Life is about choices," she said in a statement in 2005. "And I've chosen to move forward with my life in a healthy and positive way."

The best way to get Love's (frequently unhinged) comments on a matter used to be by monitoring her Twitter account. Alas, that account was closed this autumn, after Love was sued for libel for calling a fashion designer a "nasty lying hosebag thief".

We must now rely on infrequent postings to the singer's Facebook group. At the time of writing, Love's last post was: "oh jesus, i once got an ex ex boyfriend or whatever you w ant to calthat creep a hooker and i guess it must have been thru this chick, i didnt do the getting: however. it was a bday present arent i just the libertine!" We are not sure what this means.