After a bitter fight over their assets, Silva got to keep the left-handed Martin D-18E guitar that Kurt Cobain used during his iconic MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. She married musician Isaiah Silva in 2014 and divorced two years later. Love regained custody after a rehab stint, but lost it for the third time in 2009.įrances’ love life has also had its ups and downs. In 2003, Love again lost custody of her daughter after an arrest for attempted robbery, a drug overdose and suicide threats. Growing up, Frances bounced around more than 27 different homes, but mainly lived on a farm in Olympia (Washington, USA) with her paternal grandmother, Wendy O’Connor, and with her mother in the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. The film’s premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was a perfect opportunity for a public reunion with her mother, Courtney Love. Frances Bean Cobain and her mother, Courtney Love, pose at the premiere of 'Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck' (2015) at the Sundance Film Festival. Later, she went on Twitter to warn Lana de Rey about glamorizing the suicide of one of the most illustrious members of the 27 Club (celebrities who died at age 27). I don’t want her to suffer the consequences of my life.” Frances was an executive producer of the documentary and made sure that it didn’t portray a romanticized version of her father. In the 2015 documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Kurt says, “If anything can get me out of this rock and roll thing, it’s her. She was taken away from her parents when she was just two weeks old after her mother admitted in a Vanity Fair interview that she had used heroin during her pregnancy.
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Recent photos posted to Instagram feature her dogs, herself as a baby with her father, her grandmother, a selfie and her current partner – professional skateboarder and musician, Riley Hawk – the son of legendary skateboarder, Tony Hawk.įrances has struggled to live a normal life. In 2010, she exhibited her artwork for the first time in Los Angeles (California, USA) using the pseudonym, Fiddle Tim.Ī post shared by Frances Bean Cobain preferred place for sharing her artwork and occasional personal details is her Instagram account, followed by 1.5 million fans. Frances also inherited her father’s passion for painting and drawing.
Kurt Cobain left his daughter a $140 million fortune, as well as music and image rights that still generate $100,000 per month. At 25, she accompanied family friend Marc Jacobs to the Met Gala after becoming the face of the New York designer’s 2017 spring campaign. At 19, she posed for fashion designer and photographer, Hedi Slimane. As a teenager, Frances turned down film roles in the Twilight saga and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. But she certainly has not become that “miserable, self-destructive death rocker” that her father feared. In her interview with RuPaul, Frances describes her music-making attempts as sounding like a fistfight between PJ Harvey and Fiona Apple with sporadic sobs from Dolly Parton and Jeff Buckley up in heaven. “I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive death rocker that I’ve become… her life will be so much happier without me,” said her father’s suicide note. Jeff Kravitz (FilmMagic, Inc)įrances lost her father to suicide in 1994 when she was barely 20 months old. Frances Bean Cobain in RuPaul's arms with Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain at the 1993 MTV Awards. She calls herself a “visual artist” who is dedicated to protecting her father’s legacy. You are the reason I am the way I am.” So what’s Frances Bean Cobain like? That’s something of an enigma because the only child of Kurt Cobain and Hole singer Courtney Love, who was born in 1992 with neonatal abstinence syndrome due to her mother’s drug consumption, lives far from the media spotlight these days. “I am utterly convinced that that photo perfectly captures the personality that was being forged.
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Talking with drag queen RuPaul on an 2018 episode of his What’s the Tee podcast, Frances describes an old photo of RuPaul in full regalia holding a crying Frances on the red carpet of the 1993 MTV Awards. Now 30 years old, Frances Bean Cobain was often the center of attention during public appearances by the band that defined 1990s grunge music. Novoselic was joking about Kurt Cobain rocking his infant daughter in his arms during the interview. “In a few years she’ll look at this and say, ‘Thanks, Dad!’,” said Krist Novoselic, the Nirvana bassist in a 1992 MTV interview.
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