on the other hand, was worried. Courtney Love had a lot to gain if Kurt Cobain died. She also had a lot to lose if he was still alive. Shortly before his death, Cobain asked Rosemary Caroll to start the divorce papers. Cobain's estate was worth about $30 million. Love had proved her obsession with money before when she yelled at Cobain publicly for not headlining the Lollapalooza tour for $9.5 million. With the prenuptial agreement Love would only have received $1 million plus child support. Courtney Love gained fame when Kurt Cobain died. Before Cobain's death, a nanny claimed Love was obsessed with Cobain's will. The day after Cobain's death, Courtney Love did an interview with MTV VJ, Tabita Soren. Love used the interview to promote her album that was scheduled to come out in stores shortly after Cobain's death. The events surrounding Love helped her to win album of the year by Rolling Stone and Spin and also the Village Voice critics' poll. Love also used the opportunity to launch a movie career, staring in "The People Vs. Larry Flynt." She had arrived on the Hollywood scene. Nothing would get in her way. This attitude and way of life is apparent throughout Courtney Love's life. Courtney Love's first husband, James Morland said, "If somebody pissed her off a lot, she would pay this guy she knew fifty or a hundred dollars to beat them up. It was pretty scary." (Wallace) Nick Broomfield, who made a documentary on the death and life of Kurt Cobain considers Courtney Love more dangerous than any other person he has documented. Broomfield has done documentaries on serial killers. Broomfield includes in his documentary a death threat on the answering machine of writer Lynn Hirschberg of Vanity Fair. At the 1992 Academy Awards, Love attacked the journalist, using the Oscar won by Quentin Tarantino as a weapon. Kristen Pfaff, former bassist for Love's group, Hole, died on June 15, 1994. The connection between her death and Courtney Love ar...
