Kurt Cobain’s passing in 1994 is widely believed to have been the result of the Nirvana frontman taking his own life.
Earlier this year, Cobain’s widow Courtney Love told Marc Maron she had written a song for Cobain called “Justice For Kurt.”
Love went on to say that Cobain has “ruined every(thing)” for her. “It’s not worth it — it’s 2:24; it’s an earworm and a half,” she explained. “Okay, if I’m going to write a f*cking song called ‘Justice for Kurt,’ it’s going to be a f*cking earworm. But I am not putting it on that record to ruin my record. Right? Like, I do not need Kurt ruining more of my sh*t, okay? Thank you. Love you, but no.”
Love also recently made headlines when she called out the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl for the Hall’s lack of female representation.
Recently, author and filmmaker Ian Halperin challenged Love to take a lie detector test to answer questions about Cobain’s demise. Halperin alleges that Cobain was murdered.
Halperin’s new book, “Case Closed: The Cobain Murder: The Killing And Cover Up of Kurt Cobain,” presents the argument that Cobain did not kill himself. Halperin said he has uncovered new evidence, though he did not accuse Love or anybody else for the killing.
“In this book, I conclude unwaveringly, the police got it wrong a thousand percent, and it was a murder,” Halperin told The Sun.
“The verdict should be changed from suicide to murder. And all this relies on the forensic pathological evidence, new evidence I’ve dug up.”
“I’m not accusing anybody of murder, but I do challenge Courtney to finally take a polygraph. I will pay for it to clear her name. She’s been accused of being involved in this for so many years. If she passes, I will buy a billboard in Times Square and say on the billboard, ‘Courtney Love is innocent’.”
“And I still encourage her as a grieving widow to get on the trail and to find the killers. I am not going to stop until I find the killers. I’m saying, look, her role is certainly suspicious based on the plethora of evidence that I outline in the new book.”
“But I’m not accusing her of murder.” He added: “A lot of people have doubted her. “A lot of media, a lot of people close to her, openly accuse her of murder – I am not.”
Halperin went on to address Love directly saying that he is “surprised as a grieving spouse that with all these murder accusations all these years that you haven’t been on the hunt for the killers or trying to get to the bottom of it”. He added: “Please accept my challenge to take a polygraph. I will pay for it with the world’s leading polygraph examiner.”
Halperin alleges that Cobain was worth more dead that alive to Love.
“Kurt had a prenup with Courtney. He had talked to a divorce lawyer and he had left her. If they would’ve got divorced, she wouldn’t have got a penny. And he was worth much more dead than alive to Courtney Love. There was a motive there. He wanted a divorce, and that has been corroborated by multiple sources, including Courtney’s own people that I’ve spoken to.”
“So that’s not even debatable about the prenup,” he continued. “His own grandfather, Leland Cobain, I interviewed him, he was the person closest to Kurt. He said Kurt wanted to leave Courtney. He had made other plans.”
Halperin also said Cobain did not write all the lines in the note he left just prior to his death. He said: “The five final lines of the suicide notes were not in Kurt Cobain’s handwriting. That’s the only section of the suicide note that deals with suicide. And it was in a completely different handwriting. I had it examined, years ago, by two of the top handwriting experts in the world. They both concluded unwaveringly that it was not in Kurt Cobain’s handwriting.”
Halperin added: “Kurt’s music is still popular with the new generation. Sure we live in a Rihanna, Bieber, Drake music, pop popcorn generation, but music lovers still like substance. And Kurt’s music lives on 30 years later. And that’s why I’ve continued on this case to let them know how the voice of the generation, how their idol really died.”
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