Courtney Michelle LoveAlthough some sources give Love’s birth name as “Love Michelle Harrison,” her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a birth name of “Courtney Michelle Harrison." Between adoptions from several stepfathers, she has also gone by the names “Courtney Michelle Rodriguez” and “Courtney Michelle Menely.” The name change to “Courtney Michelle Love” happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her musical career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name “Courtney Michelle Menely”). According to the same statistics list above, the birth status of Courtney’s 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include “Love” as the mother’s maiden surname. (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to late Nirvana lead singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone has called Love “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”.Love me do Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music

Life and career

Early life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent.. Courtney Love Part I She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl".Jewish Chronicle June 5, 2008: "So you see, I’m a nice Jewish girl and I’ve lots of Irish in me." The editorial comment is "Scarily enough, Courtney is a halachic Jew." Love’s biological family broke up soon after her birth. During a child custody case following Love’s parents’ divorce, both her mother and one of her friends presented letters to the court implying her father had given the child, then three years old, LSD.Courtney Love: The Real Story Book Review | Entertainment Weekly Harrison denies this allegationCourtney Love’s intimate journals spark legal feud with father—Times Online and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love’s mother.