Courtney Love Urges Judge Not To Go Public With Kurt Cobain’s Death Scene Photos

Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love has urged a Seattle judge not to release graphic death-scene photos showing the corpse of the former Nirvana frontman in the immediate aftermath of his tragic and sometimes disputed suicide.

One might ask what place such disturbing and macabre photos have in the public realm in the first place, but not if you’re Mr Richard Lee.

Lee, who runs a Seattle public access TV show, launched a lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department, demanding that they release the death scene photos of Kurt Cobain because he claimed they will prove beyond doubt that the troubled singer was murdered on that fateful day over 20 years ago.

Lee claims that contrary to popular belief, Cobain didn’t die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994. Mr.lee insists that Cobain was brutally murdered, and those involved staged an elaborate cover-up to make the troubled musician’s death look like just another rock n’ roll suicide.

Billboard reports that Superior Court Judge Theresa Doyle will listen to arguments and decide whether to initiate further legal proceedings regarding the case.

The city of Seattle has come out fighting against the lawsuit, arguing against such material being made public. They stated

that Kurt Cobain’s death scene photos and other such records should stay hidden in the vaults for the sake of his family’s privacy.

Both Courtney Love and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain have gone on record explaining that they have never seen nor do they wish to see the photos of Kurt Cobain’s body. They urged the court to consider the physical and psychological impact the release of the death scene photos would have on their lives.

Frances Bean Cobain explained that one crazed Nirvana fan had already broken into her California home and waited three days for her to return because he “believed my father’s soul had entered my body.” She also explained that the release of such photos would greatly increase the harassment she already faces from fans “obsessed with my father.”

“I have had to cope with many personal issues because of my father’s death. Coping with even the possibility that those photographs could be made public is very difficult. Further sensationalizing it through the release of these pictures would cause us indescribable pain.”

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