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Courtney Love vs. Lynn Hirschberg
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In a 1992 Vanity Fair profile, journalist Lynn Hirschberg reported that Courtney Love's heroin use overlapped with the early stages of her pregnancy with daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Thanks to the article, the baby was taken by Los Angeles Children's Services and returned months later after a legal battle.
At the time, Love left harassing voiecmails for Hirschberg, calling her a "c--t," and threatened to beat her with Quentin Tarantino's Oscar statue in 1995. The feud is still going strong: In 2011, Courtney implicated Hirschberg's article in Kurt Cobain's suicide, saying, "She humiliated and emasculated him. She sent him over the edge. She deserves most of the blame for his death."











