A leaked autopsy report has once again stirred up the mystery surrounding the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994. The report confirmed the lead singer’s death was a suicide, but last year, author Ian Halperin suggested that it might have been a murder. He proposed that Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow, could take a lie detector test to prove she wasn’t involved.
Recently, Halperin has made a new offer to Love. He’s willing to either put up a billboard in Times Square declaring her innocence or give her $50,000 if she takes the polygraph test and passes. The author told The US Sun:
“I want to update my offer. If Courtney agrees to take the test and she passes, she gets her choice. I’ll either take out that billboard in Times Square or a person who is in the long-time music industry executive has offered to give her $50,000 cash if she passes.”
Halperin, who has raised doubts about Cobain’s ability to end his own life, citing the high levels of heroin in his system at the time of death, went on:
“I am keen to find the truth. I just want her to finally clear this and get to the truth in our lifetime. A polygraph would be a step to erase the doubt forever.”
Courtney Love’s Side Was Looking For Money, He Says
An alleged associate of Love questioned Halperin about a potential fee when he initially made the billboard offer last year. The author shared:
“Somebody who said they were close to her called me and said, ‘Are you offering her money?’ I made it clear I was offering her the chance to clear her name and that I would take out a billboard in Times Square, which I would pay for, saying ‘Courtney’s innocent’ if she passed.”
Ian Halperin once offered Prince Andrew a $100 million lie-detector test regarding his association with Jeffrey Epstein. Referring to that, he noted:
“I think the person was just fishing. Maybe they researched the offer of $100 million I made to Prince Andrew for a lie-detector test and thought that I had money. With the Andrew offer, I had a backer, a multimillionaire whose daughter was abused, and he wanted to hear what the Prince had to say.”
This time, the talks of money came from an executive who believes Cobain’s cause of death was murder.
The Doubts About Cobain’s Suicide Note
A private detective Love hired to solve the 27-year-old artist’s case, Tom Grant, leaked the autopsy report, which was never before made public due to privacy laws. Grant has expressed doubts about the official suicide ruling, saying the suicide note found at the scene actually aimed to announce Cobain was quitting music.
Halperin’s book ‘Case Closed: The Cobain Murder: The Killing And Cover Up Of Kurt Cobain’ also questioned the validity of the note’s final lines, which ended with ‘It’s better to burn out than to fade away.’ He wrote:
“The five final lines of the suicide note were not in Kurt Cobain’s handwriting. That’s the only section of the suicide note that deals with suicide. And it was in a completely different handwriting. I had it examined years ago by two top handwriting experts in the world. They both concluded unwaveringly that it was not in Kurt Cobain’s handwriting.”
Adding to this, the author recently claimed that the coroner who examined Cobain’s body had a personal connection with Love. He also said that Dr. Nikolas Hartshorne was a Nirvana and Courtney Love fan, who confessed he should’ve been taken from the autopsy due to his bias.
