Yeah, I'm not really sure what's going on here. I mean, if you're going to steal someone's identity you'd think you'd think twice before taking that of one of recent history's most famous but very dead rock icons.
But Courtney Love has told reporters that thieves have stolen the identity of her late husband Kurt Cobain, that they have set up 188 credit cards in his name, and that they have acquired the former Nirvana star's social security number and are using it to buy property, run up debts and to even embezzle funds from the late Cobain's bank accounts, including a trust fund set up for the couple's daughter Frances Bean. What's more Love has suspected the fraud has been taking place for five years, but the authorities won't believe her.
It seems at least some of the authorities still aren't convinced. After Love's fraud claims surfaced over the weekend, TMZ.com reported that the LAPD were dismissing her as "delusional" and quoted one source as saying all the fraud allegations "never happened". The implication seems to be that Love is having her loopy turns again or, to put it in more medical terms, that she has a bi-polar disorder and is prone to making wild allegations during periods of mania.
But Love is very aware of those claims, denies them vehemently, and stands by her fraud allegations. Writing on her MySpace, she said (dodgy grammar and all): "God, people are batshit. i hear now i am "Bi Polar" uhhhh ... thats more nuts than i will ever be. i may be Eccentric, i certainly speak my mind and am slow to put out a record i need to mean the world to ME, and im sure i am quite Nuerotic but "Bi Polar". Thats just slander.I shoot straight from the hip and spellcheck has NOTHING to do with REALITY. I find this whole thing so offensive because until Kurts social security number was checked noone took it seriously, but hey here is the Experian with 188 visas on it, thats not Bi Polar, that is reality". So, that's that cleared up.