COURTNEY LOVE PLANS TO SELL SEATTLE MANSION

Courtney Love has decided to sell the Seattle mansion she purchased with late husband Kurt Cobain months before the Nirvana frontman committed suicide. "I have a nice house, but I can't live there," Love told the Independent on Sunday newspaper. "Kids everywhere all the time," she said, referring to the devoted Nirvana fans who have trekked to the almost hundred-year-old mansion ever since Cobain committed suicide in the home's greenhouse on April 8, 1994. Love, lead singer of Hole and star of The People vs. Larry Flynt, later had the greenhouse demolished, but that didn't stop the influx of fans. Love says she and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, will move to Los Angeles and purchase a horse farm in Olympia, Washington. But that doesn't mean she's happy about it. "I have a child who didn't do anything, and I love waking up and seeing the mountains. That's my big heartbreak," she said. It's estimated that the mansion will bring in about $6.4 million. Love has refused previous offers from interested buyers, including one from a Japanese businessman two years ago. "They were never going to live there," she told the paper. "They just wanted it. As what? A museum? Kurt wanted me to stay here, or he would not have done it in the greenhouse.


- Wall Of Sound, March 17, 1997


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