Courtney Love

The daughter of The Grateful Dead devotee and first manager Hank Harrison and psychologist Linda Caroll, Courtney Love spent her early years in hippie communes and at schools in Europe and New Zealand. As a musician, she played in early incarnations of Babes In Toyland and Faith No More, as well as acting in bit parts for some Alex Cox films. She started her own band, Hole, and in 1992 married Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. After Cobain's suicide in 1994, and the release of Hole's second album "Live Through This", Love continued to thrill her fans and enrage her detractors with her on- and off-stage antics. She saw increased success in both movie roles and music throughout the late 90s, as Hole's third album, "Celebrity Skin" was a huge success, spawning the hit singles "Malibu", "Celebrity Skin" and "Awful".

Hole broke up in 2001 and Love found herself descending deeper into drug use and was frequent tabloid fodder for her increasingly outrageous behavior. During this time she released her critically panned and commercially unsuccessful solo album "America's Sweetheart". Her troubles culminated when she lost custody of her only daughter, Frances Bean Cobain in 2004. She regained custody, but was forced into rehab after it was discovered that she used drugs in violation of her probation, which lead to her being forced into lock down rehab in 2006. She would lose custody of Frances Bean again in 2009.

Now clean and sober, Courtney is now trying to rebuild her life after years marred by heavy drug use and financial trouble. She reformed Hole and started work in a new album which was released in 2010 as "Nobody's Daughter", which has served as a career reboot. However, she is still dealing with many court cases, mainly stemming from her strained relationship with Frances Bean and claims that a trust fund set up for her and Frances by Kurt Cobain in the early 1990s has been embezzled.