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Courtney Love is an actress, a singer-songwriter, and a musician from the United States. However she is better known for her antics off the stage. Love’s current net worth stands at an impressive $150 million.
She was born in San Francisco as Courtney Michelle Harrison. She is associated with the alternative rock genre and is known for her guitar, keyboards, bass and vocal skills. Courtney Love was also married to Kurt Cobain till the time of his untimely death. She has a daughter with Kurt. Both Courtney and Kurt were into drug abuse. Her most successful album till now has been “Live Through This” which was released shortly after the death of Cobain, who was also into the making of this album. It went on to become a platinum hit. Courtney has also been acting in a few productions. She has performed in The People vs. Larry Flynt, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, Feeling Minnesota, Julie Johnson, and Hit So Hard among many others.
A lot of Courtney’s wealth comes from the Nirvana band that she inherited from Kurt. She has also inherited the publishing and writing rights of Kurt’s work. These rights have been valued at $115 Million and $130 Million respectively. She is also in the possession of Kurt’s personal things like his notes, clothes, guitars and other things that have been valued at $120 Million.
However Love later claimed in 2009 that most of the inherited wealth has been lost or stolen because of poor financial decisions made by the accountants. According to her claims, the loss amounts to a staggering $500 Million of real estate and $30 Million of cash.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date | Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Record Sales | Estimated earnings from album Nobody's Daughter with the band Hole (33,000 copies sold after third week of release) | $35,000 |
2003 | Record Sales | Estimated earnings from her album America's Sweetheart (130,000 copies sold in the US and 250,000 copies sold worldwide) | $400,000 |
1997 | Record Sales | Estimated earnings from album Celebrity Skin with the band Hole (certified 2x platinum by ARIA, platinum by RIAA and Music Canada, and gold by BPI) | $1,340,000 |
1993 | Record Sales | Estimated earnings from album Live Through This with the band Hole (certified platinum by RIAA, ARIA and Music Canada, and gold by BPI) | $1,270,000 |
1993 | Record Sales | Earnings from the inheritance of the publishing rights of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana (sold 25% of the rights in 2006) | $130,000,000 |
1993 | Misc. | Earnings from the inheritance of the writing rights of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana | $115,000,000 |
1990 | Record Sales | Estimated earnings from album Pretty on the Inside with the band Hole (200,000 copies sold in the US) | $210,000 |