Exclusive | Kurt Cobains widow Courtney Love asked for entire police file on his death be handed over to her, docs show: Totally absurd
Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love once demanded that the entire police file on his death be handed over to her, with no copies left at the Seattle Police Department, according to a newly unearthed document.The Nirvana frontman’s widow made the stunning request Oct.20, 1995 — about a year and a half after her 27-year-old musician husband was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a greenhouse at their Seattle mansion.Investigators had declared Cobain’s death a suicide from the outset, a conclusion Love concurred with — but a group of researchers who believe it was a homicide have been campaigning for years to get the case reopened.Now it has emerged that a lawyer acting for Hole frontwoman Love wrote a letter to then-Seattle Chief of Police Norm Stamper in 1995 seeking all of the investigation files regarding her husband’s death.“This letter is to request that the complete investigation file of the Seattle Police Department pertaining to Mr.
Cobain’s death be delivered to me, with no further records or copies to remain with the Department,” Love’s lawyer, Bryan Coluccio, wrote in the missive, which was discovered by researchers for the “Who Killed Kurt?” investigative group.“I confirm on behalf of Mr.Cobain’s estate and Ms.
Love-Cobain that they are satisfied that the Seattle Police Department performed a complete and thorough investigation into Mr.Cobain’s death,” Coluccio said.“Our clients agree with and accept, without any reservation, the Department’s final determination that Mr.
Cobain’s death was a suicide.The matter can be closed.”The case file included undeveloped rolls of 35mm still film and Polaroid photos related to the investigation, copies of “personal letters” written by Cobain and financial and other “personal and private” information.AdvertisementColuccio explained that the reason for making the request was because “several persons” had tried to make money from the “sale and distributio...