NEW YORK, April 6 (UPI) -- Singer Courtney Love spent the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death surrounded by legal battles and questions about whether she killed her famous husband.
A Los Angeles judge Monday denied a key request by Love's defense team, enabling Love's drug case to now proceed to an April 16 hearing, MTV reported Tuesday, while a New York book publisher announced the release of "Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain," a new book that resurrects the idea that Cobain's death was murder, not suicide.
In Los Angeles, Judge Patricia Schnegg let stand the results of Love's drug test at the time of her arrest, although Love's attorneys tried to have the test and its resulting toxicology report thrown out on the basis that probable cause did not exist to have Love arrested.
Love has been charged with misdemeanor drug and disorderly conduct charges stemming from an incident in October.
In New York, authors Max Wallace and Ian Halperin appeared with Love's former private investigator, Tom Grant, to play audio tapes from Love's conversations with Grant, whom she hired when her husband disappeared in 1994.
In the book, out this week, the authors point to Love's suspicious behavior and statements in an attempt to discredit the belief that Cobain committed suicide at the couple's Seattle home.
Love always has denied that she contributed to her husband's death.
