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Kurt Cobain | Deceased singer | Defrauded for $3million | The Sun |HomePage|News
By EMILY SMITH
US Editor
FRAUDSTERS used dead rocker Kurt Cobain’s social security number to buy a $3.2million HOUSE, it emerged yesterday.
The Nirvana frontman’s widow
Courtney Love revealed that identity thieves had also set up 188 credit cards in her name.
News of the £1.6million mansion emerged yesterday — despite
Courtney, 43, admitting she knew that fraud was going on FIVE YEARS ago.
This week
Courtney, 43, met cops in Van Nuys, LA, to give them details of a probe by forensic accountants Kroll which discovered £36million missing. Cheques had been stolen and cars bought by villains.
She told The Sun: “I knew it had been going on since when I went cuckoo — bananas — in 2003.
It was fraud after fraud. But nobody believed me until now. I did a check on my deceased husband’s social security number and he has a house in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He bought it last year.
“I would like to know how. He should probably get his a** back home if that is the case.”
Smells Like Teen Spirit writer Kurt shot himself dead in April 1994 aged 27, making widow
Courtney owner of 98 per cent of Nirvana’s grunge catalogue.
The band have sold more than 62million albums worldwide, with classic album Nevermind selling ten million copies.
His estate rakes in £21million every year, with most going into a trust fund for their daughter Frances Bean, now 14.
Courtney lost control of her finances as she struggled with drug addiction, and sold 25 per cent of the catalogue two years ago.
She called in forensic accountants to investigate after fears cash was being taken.
Courtney — ex singer with rock band Hole — believes it is one of the biggest ID theft cases in US history. She said she had high hopes of bringing the crooks to justice, adding: “I know who they are.
“Taking a child’s money and future is a really horrible thing.”
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