Courtney Love hasn’t just lost her sanity this time. Citing personal and financial reasons, a Los Angeles court has taken away Love’s legal custody of 17-year old daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister will act as Frances’ legal guardians (What about Frances’ purported godparents, Michael Stipe and Drew Barrymore?). According to the court papers obtained by TMZ, the temporary guardianship will be in effect until February 10, 2010, six months before Frances’ 18th birthday—so even if Love reclaims guardianship after that date, Frances only has half a year before she’s free.
Is it more shocking to hear that Courtney Love lost legal custody over her daughter, or that it took this long?
A round-up of some of the more outlandish behavior Court’s displayed the last year or so may help explain the court’s rationale in ruling that Frances had to be cared for by someone other than her mother.
:: Love threw a “suicidal sweet 16” birthday party for Frances Bean, despite, ya know, that her father had committed suicide and all. (Or not?)
:: She admitted to British Elle that she used heroin during the first trimester of her pregnancy (although she didn’t know she was expecting at the time).
:: She drafted incomprehensible MySpace and Twitter rants, some of which resulted in litigation.
:: She wrote a post on her Facebook page insinuating that Britney Spears’ father Jamie molested the pop star, while providing absolutely no proof besides stating “i have it on First had authority [sic, obviously].” Uh huh.
:: She claimed that she was the victim of a massive scheme of identify theft. The police dismissed the case and called Love “bipolar.”
:: She touched off a (fake) fight with bite-sized Courtney copycat Taylor Momsen.
Hey, it wasn’t always like this—Courtney did have her sh*t together at one point in her life. Despite drug addictions and the loss of her husband leaving her a single mom, she still managed to have a successful (albeit brief) film and music career, garnering Grammy nominations with Hole and a Golden Globe nom for The People vs. Larry Flynt. (Hell, she even dated her well-respected co-star.) Love even felt so superior as a mother that in 2006 she publicly lambasted Britney Spears for her formerly suspect parenting skills, telling Extra TV, “Say what you will about me, and I’m not passing judgment, but when I had my daughter, I stayed home with her almost every night for the first year of her life.”
We’re not passing judgment either, but what an awful mess.
Just read S/FJ’s hilarious takedown of Robbie & Becky (seriously?) on his New Yorker blog, & have been catching up on what I missed since MJ’s departure. Answer: a lot of very bad writing by two people who appear to be college freshmen. Idolator’s now one of the worst sites about pop culture on the internet. You guys do realize that the key to a good blog is, um, good writing? Have you read Robbie’s & Becky’s writing? Did you read it before you hired them? You did? Nah, come on, quit playin.
yeh, but SFJ is old, bald and boring, so who really carrez?
i don’t even know why i bother with idolator. i must have had a slow news day.
People need to give Becky and Robbie a break. They’re good writers and this is a good site. I loved the old Idolator and I love the new one to.
If people don’t like the new Idolator then you can find another site. There’s plenty of music blogs and websites out there, ones that get updated a hell of a lot more frequently than this one, so stop hatin’.
@The Prophet: I wasn’t aware that you had the authority to tell “People” what to do and think, I’ll do all the “hatin’” that i want. You must have read Becky and Robbie’s writing elsewhere, because there is no evidence here that they are good writers.
As loath as part of me is to admit it, this site has come leaps and bounds from the initial transition about a month ago. I have to give credit where credit is due. The first two weeks post-Maura were ugly, but the writing and subject matter has gotten significantly better.
However, what is horrible are the semi-literate, ALL CAPS postings in response to anything Chris Brown/Adam Lambert/Michael Jackson related.
Please Idolator 2.0, I beg of you, bring back the policy of requiring a login to post – the comments were half the reason I enjoyed this site so much, and now reading the ramblings of “OMG CHRIS BROWN IS FINE!! ALL YOU H8TRS NEED TO STEP OFF!” is just depressing.
@dsven:
Please do not group me in with such losers. Whatever comment I leave on this site, they are always mature and well thought out. No CAPS, no defecation of the English language, no attacking other posters. I read this blog on occasion as well, and I like to leave my thoughts whenever I so choose. I’m sure there are others who are also mature enough to use a keyboard properly, so please do not prevent anonymous posters from leaving comments. Since I’m sure you guys keep a log of IP addresses who comment, I’m sure you can ban those that show up only to cause trouble.
I just don’t understand why everyone comes here to be negative towards Robbie and Becky.
If you really want to stick it them then just don’t come here any more and don’t comment, and then their hits will suffer and that will result in a problem.
I don’t see the point of people coming here just to leave abusive comments all the time.
It might be possible to salvage the site, should one want to, if the comment quality was still so high. Which it’s not. Where are the nerdy pop kids hanging out now?
(although no sign in does mean I can comment at work, but I’m really not worth it)
All that being said, isn’t it amazing how much Frances Bean looks like her father?