Dante's Nirvana: Frances Bean and the Priceless Legacy of a Father
"You are all the unfortunate victims of a very large and very scary conspiracy."
Starting in the 1990s - there was an ongoing and massive heist of Kurt Cobainās estate that charted in the $100s of millions. Unraveling how this occurred has been an ongoing endeavor, which includes fragments of information from court filings, news reports and Courtney Loveās prolific writing across the internet. Yet, there are still many unknowns and the theft involved many different entities and people over the span of decades. It will take a concerted effort via public pressure for Frances to get the justice she deserves.
A dizzying array of evidence is known, although the publicās attention has never laser focused in on this case. Isn't it convenient that Courtney is one of the most notorious people in the history of rock 'n' roll?
The Hollywood cartel that executed this heist is also enmeshed themselves in the estates of Tupac, Britney Spears, Mike Tyson and Michael Jackson. Whatever you may think of these celebrities - their families have been traumatized by these financial assaults.
These crooks acquire these celebritiesā estates by any means possible; this includes the active complicity of lawyers, psychiatric facilities, family court and more. After all - you only die once and managing the legacy of dead celebrities is a huge business.
The purpose of this article is to lay out the basic facts of this massive financial assault by focusing on a specific period when Britney Spearsā team became involved with Frances Bean Cobain.
Some may wonder: āWhy should we care about robbing the rich?ā You must consider the fact that in order to pull off a crime of this scale it necessitates multi-sector institutional corruption, as well as inordinate power to get away with it all. This has consequences for the general public - as the more resources criminals have at their disposal the grander the scale of their crimes.
"I have never seen such greed and moral turpitude. This case is going to make Bernard Madoff look warm and fuzzy," Love's lawyer, Rhonda J. Holmes, of Gordon & Holmes in San Diego, told Page Six. - April 7, 2009
Courtney Love Is An (Im)Perfect Victim
I entered this rabbit hole after the #FreeBritney movement bled into the mainstream media. It was immediately apparent to me that mainstream media was not serving the real story, as a lower class family could not have pulled off the heist of a century.
It was surprising for me to learn that Courtney Love had anything to do with people involved with Britneyās conservatorship and that Courtney had spoken out for Britney's freedom for well over a decade. This was shocking to me at first, as I never paid too much attention to mainstream pop culture.
Upon further consideration it made sense: Nirvana and Britney both have created some of the best selling U.S. albums of all time. Furthermore, I learned that the business manager that helped establish Britneyās conservatorship, Lou Taylor of Tri Star Sports and Entertainment, was intimately involved in the exploitation of Frances Bean and the Cobain estate.
In my obsessive investigation into these matters I found an archive of Courtney Loveās social media posts from the 2000s. The archive is 400 pages and its contents were jaw dropping. Although, Courtney is a writer of notoriously prolific screeds riddled with typos and poor grammar - I could read it and it blew my mind! (Perhaps because I am exceedingly good with language - I scored in the 96th percentile on the GRE. Iām a weirdo who studied the dictionary and writing is a manmade system so all these rules are truly arbitrary).
Courtney emotively wrote of the robbery of the Cobain estate: mortgage fraud, forgery, stolen documents and more. There were business names, addresses, dates, and names that I could validate by cross-referencing external documents.
Is it any wonder that it was infamous celebrities who were targeted by this gang? These celebritiesā flaws and/or alleged crimes are the exact attributes that void their credibility as being a victim of anything. Thus, it is their perceived moral defects that make them the perfect victims
(Note: I have edited all of Courtneyās writing for clarity and provide links to the primary sources.)
A Quick Summary
In December 2021 the Financial Times printed an article by Courtney Love. Given their stellar reputation they would have never published this article without fact checking every single one of Courtneyās claims of financial assault.
My family has been the victim of every single financial crime there is. I donāt want anybody to feel sorry for us, but some really horrible things have happened ā weāve had millions taken from us. It started a few years before Kurt [Cobain]ās death, in the early 1990s, and only got worse after he died. Recently my manager and an attorney discovered five forged wills of mine, 67 bank accounts, 102 Mastercards and Visas. There were Centurion cards with million-dollar credit lines ā I found one that was being used in 2005 byĀ someone I had fired in 1999! Basically, they stole everyĀ single cent. I was writing Tweets the other day aboutĀ it all, but I didnāt publish them: each one sounded like a line ofĀ dialogue from Succession.Ā
I started realizing all this was happening in 2002, andĀ the FBI did a big investigation into it in 2006; but the point at which I realize how fucking stupid I was is an ongoing process. At its worst, we had LAWYERS and AGENTS trying to colonize our estate, and they froze my assets. From April to November 2011 I spent a lot of time living in a squat in Hackney. I didnāt even have the Tube fare ā but I know howĀ to be poor, because I come from punk.
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Iād been screaming my head off about Britney Spearsā conservatorship for 13 years ā ever since it began. I was the first to go after Harvey Weinstein publicly too. I was laughed at, derided and punished on both occasions, and Iāve had an existential crisis these past few years, asking: āWhat is the actual point of justice?ā So seeing it come for my friends who were hit hard by Harvey felt nice. But seeing it with Britney? Iāve got to be honest: it feels fucking delicious! And if there is justice, really, I hope my family is next.ā
- Courtney Love in the Financial Times, December 5, 2021
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