True interviewed the couple's manny, Michael (Cali) DeWitt, who was charged
with watching their daughter, Frances Bean. DeWitt recalls that on the day
Nirvana shot the "Heart-Shaped Box" video, a huge fight escalated
between Love and Cobain and "in the classic Kurt way of saying f- you, he
put a cigarette out in the middle of his forehead. If you watch the video,
there's a lot of makeup on his forehead because it was a really bad
scab.'?"
True adds that, soon after, Cobain "phoned Courtney, got into a fight,
and immediately called his lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, to tell her he wanted a
divorce."
Carroll tells True, "Did he ever say that to me? Yes, he did, but I
don't know how serious he was."
DeWitt also describes to True in disturbing detail Cobain's first suicide
attempt, which came after Courtney rebuffed Kurt's romantic advances on their
reunion following Nirvana's European tour. He said: "Our rooms were
connected and I ran in there and he was on the floor, dressed, with his eyes
open, blood coming out of his nose." True follows up with the details that
Cobain "was fully dressed, with $1,000 in his pocket and a three-page note
in his hand" and that 60 Rohypnol pills were reportedly pumped from his
stomach that night. Says DeWitt, "It was one of those things like, Was it
or wasn't it?"
Yesterday, L.A. Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin explained his decision to
Love - who was dressed in a conservative suit like Courtroom Barbie - saying,
"You've shown to me you are interested in a much less destructive
lifestyle."
Side Dish
Steven Tyler knows how to hold onto those Aerosmith royalties. The rocker,
resplendent in a white sheared fur with a red diamond pattern he said belonged
to his daughter, browsed inside the Clary & Co. antiques boutique on
Bleecker St. recently with his new gal pal. Despite the fact she has streaked
her hair purple to match his, when she said she loved a $65 jewelry box, he
said, "You don't need it" and hopped into one of two stretch limos
outside. ... Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun is clinging to life after
being taken off life support, we are told. The 83-year-old suffered a head
injury after falling at the Rolling Stones concert at the Beacon on Oct. 29. An
Atlantic spokesman said yesterday that he "remains in critical
condition." ... Penelope Cruz brought Orlando Bloom to Brett Ratner's party
Saturday, but for old time's sake, Cruz went solo that same night to Paula
Wagner and Rick Nicita's post-honeymoon bash for Cruz's "ex," Tom
Cruise, and Katie Holmes. ... Stefano Gabbana, of Dolce & Gabbana, may be
out and proud, but he's against gay couples raising kids. The designer, in a new
relationship following his 2005 split from Domenico Dolce, told the Italian
newspaper La Repubblica that he wants a baby, but, by our translation, "not
an adopted baby, I don't feel up to it, I'm not strong enough. I would like a
child of my own, a biological child, fruit of my seed." He says he has
asked a "dear friend" to be the mother, because "I am opposed to
a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a father and a mother. I
can't imagine my childhood without my mother. And I think that it's cruel to
take a baby from its mother."
Surveillance
Among those cheering the Knicks' Saturday victory over the Milwaukee Bucks
were "Laguna Beach" hottie Kristin Cavallari and model Selita Ebanks
...
What?! A celebrity turned down a freebie Thursday. Lauren Bush insisted on
paying for a handmade teddy bear at Caravan on Great Jones St., though staffers
offered it for free. The model, still gorgeous though dressed down in sweats
with actress pal Amy Smart, may have wanted to help Wildlife Works, the African
conservation group ...
With their sexy Broadway show "Spring Awakening" now getting raves,
composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Steven Sater still had preopening jitters
Sunday. The pair kicked back with cocktails at 7Square, the midcentury chophouse
with updated fare at 224 W. 49 St. ...
Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith has evolved into quite the modest guy. When
the Ohio State quarterback showed up with family and friends to celebrate at
Jay-Z's 40/40 Club Saturday night, he didn't carry his award with him like all
the Oscar and Emmy winners do. But fans at the club were begging to see it, so
one of Smith's pals nipped over to his hotel and made it the centerpiece. ...
Rudy Giuliani toasted newlyweds Jay McInerney and an incandescent Anne Hearst
at their Bridgehampton home Sunday - having married them the week before.
Novelist Jay, whose groom's cake was shaped like a stack of books, recalled that
Rudy's wife, Judith, had been "our weeping witness" when the lovebirds
eloped. The former mayor applauded the previously married couple for finding
love again "like we did," and mentioned that he'd performed a few
hundred weddings now. In terms of divorces, he laughed, "My record's pretty
good." The big jewels were out as Anne's sisters, Patty, Victoria and Randy
Hearst, Christie Brinkley (whose estranged husband, Peter Cook, designed the
house), Rick and Kathy Hilton, Kerry Kennedy, Candace Bushnell, John and Karen
Duffy Lambros, Steven and Kimberly Rockefeller, Morgan Entrekin, Dominique
Browning, Nicole Miller, Frances Hayward, R. Couri Hay, Nina Griscom and Patty
Raynes danced to Dan Aykroyd and wished the couple well. The honeymooners are
off to the Maldives. They'll return to their new digs, a Village penthouse once
owned by Susan Sarandon.
With Patrick Huguenin and Cristina Kinon
Originally published on December 12, 2006
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