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Courtney Love is described as an unstable maternal figure, in newly released deposition papers filed by her daughter in 2009 seeking a restraining order against the troubled rocker.

Frances Bean Cobain, now 19, says Love’s wreckless behavior even caused the death the family dog and cat.

The cat died after getting entangled in Love’s messy piles of ‘Etsy fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash and other possessions,” according to the court papers, while the dog swallowed several of Love’s stash of prescription pills.

In order to ensure that no other pets would fall victim to Love’s pill-popping habits, Cobain included her dog, Uncle Fester, on the restraining order which was granted.

Among those Love, 47, was ordered to avoid contact with include Cobain, Uncle Fester, Cobains’ grandmother and her aunt.

In the papers, originally obtained by The Fix, Cobain also laments Love’s worrying drug use.

“(She) has taken drugs for as long as I can remember,” Cobain said. “She basically exists now on … Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes. She rarely eats … She often falls asleep in her bed while she is smoking, and I am constantly worried that she will start a fire (which she has done at least three times) that will threaten our lives.”

Cobain initially filed the restraining order against her mommy dearest in the L.A. Superior Court in December 2009 following a physical fight between the two.

At the time, Cobain spoke out about another bizarre incident that occurred several years before. Cobain claimed Love dragged her to the home of Love’s former boyfriend, James Barber.

“She took me in a taxi to his house in the middle of the night, and from outside the house, in her bare feet, she screamed at him, threw rocks at the house, and threatened to burn his house down,” Cobain said in the sworn statement.

“His children were inside the house, but that did not stop my mother.”

Mother and daughter have had a rocky relationship since the restraining order was granted.

But Cobain is trying to move on with her life. She became engaged to The Ramgles singer Isaiah Silva in October and they are looking forward to their upcoming nuptials.

“Getting to spend the rest of my life loving my best friend makes me the luckiest woman in the world,” Cobain wrote on her Facebook at the time.

In the past three years she has gone from curvaceous rock star to Hollywood’s idea of slender perfection.

But one look at Courtney Love this week shows she has now gone too far. The 44-year-old singer looked shockingly frail when she was spotted in New York.

Her sleeveless top and clingy grey leggings exposed just how thin she has become. Her face appeared pale and gaunt.

‘Courtney looked worryingly thin, like skin and bones,’ one onlooker said. ‘Her figure is so tiny that it made her head look too big for her body.’

Her visit is thought to be connected to the lawsuit American Express has filed against her over allegedly unpaid credit.

Miss Love, who was married to the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, has made no secret of her battle with her weight.

She began dieting in 2006 to lose the 45lb she piled on after managing to quit her long-standing drug habit. She eventually lost 52lb with the help of a diet of protein shakes, fish and vegetables.

There were whispers that she’d had the help of gastric band surgery and liposuction as well.

But Miss Love denied having surgery to control her weight and liked to joke about her new shape.

Sipping on a protein shake during a concert in New York in 2007, she told the audience: ‘[I] had to take care of my eating disorder’ before insisting she was joking.

In January this year she confessed she had wanted to get a gastric band fitted but was told by doctors she was not fat enough.

‘If I could get a gastric band I would,’ she told Elle magazine.

‘I’ve heard it’s a lot of vomiting and a pain in the ass, but it’s still easier than a diet.’

Miss Love lives in Los Angeles with her 16-year-old daughter Frances Bean. She lost custody of her in 2003 after overdosing on painkillers in front of her. They were reunited in 2005.

Miss Love is said to have been in New York visiting a bank in connection with a lawsuit American Express has filed against her over alleged unpaid credit.

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Courtney Love finally sobered up and realized that some of the people handling Kurt Cobain’s estate had lost all the money the Nirvana frontman had left her and their daughter, Frances Bean, her lawyer says.

A team of investigators, forensic accountants and lawyers found that Cobain’s estate had been looted of more than $30 million cash and up to $500 million in real estate.

“I have never seen such greed and moral turpitude. This case is going to make Bernard Madoff look warm and fuzzy,” Love’s lawyer, Rhonda J. Holmes, of Gordon & Holmes in San Diego, told Page Six.

“We will be filing civil cases . . . within the next 30 days. There are many, many millions missing. We’ve only been able to track down $30 million, but there is more. And then there is the real estate.”

According to Holmes, bank accounts using Cobain, Love and Frances Bean’s Social Security numbers were set up and used to buy and sell real estate across the US.

“There is now a web of homes which were bought, flipped and used to launder money — up to $500 million worth,” Holmes said. “Any of the property we can get back will be donated to people who have lost their homes in foreclosures.”

Asked how this could have happened, Holmes said, “Courtney noticed the money was gone when there wasn’t any left. It’s no secret she struggled with substance-abuse issues, but in the last year she’s taken a more serious approach to sobriety and started noticing things were wrong. She hired private investigators, accountants and me.

“We are also working with local and federal authorities,” Holmes said. “When Mr. Cobain died in 1994, he left his enormously wealthy estate behind for the benefit of his mother, two sisters, a brother, his wife and young daughter. Many of those [involved with] the estate’s coffers mismanaged, stole and outright looted it shamelessly.”

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COURTNEY Love claims she’s not taking drugs anymore, but you wouldn’t know it from comments she made in the Jewish magazine Heeb. Love, whose mother is Jewish but who describes herself as Buddhist, says of ex-husband Kurt Cobain’s legacy: “Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt’s child, or to me, it’s going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, it’s going to lawyers who are also bankers . . .” The former Hole singer also mused on why she’s given up playing in an all-girl band: “Like, there are [bleep]ing riot grrls sitting there banging on pots and pans and talking about their vaginas, and that’s all really lovely, but the music blows.” On why she won’t date actors: “They’re [bleep]. They’re women.” And on being a parent: “I’m more like, ‘You’re not going to do that, so [bleep] off, or I’m taking your computer, and your [bleep]ing, you know, BlackBerry.’ ”

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Just what every teenage daughter wants to hear.

Frances Bean Cobain – the 15-year-old daughter of rockers Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain – would have been aborted in the womb if Love’s handlers had had their way, an upcoming book claims.

In “Bumping Into Geniuses,” a memoir about the music business, Danny Goldberg, former CEO of Warner Bros. Records who also managed Kurt’s band Nirvana, reveals how he and a group of Love’s inner circle -worried about her heroin use during pregnancy – plotted an intervention.

During a meeting with a doctor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s chemical dependency program, the doctor “tried to give clinical advice, suggesting to Courtney that it was not a great idea to have a baby while dealing with addiction,” writes Goldberg. That didn’t sit well with Love, who exploded.

” ‘You’re not telling me to have a [bleep]-ing abortion, are you?’ asked Courtney, her voice rising with her trademark hostile whine. ‘I mean I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean that anyone has the right to tell me to have a [bleep]ing abortion.’

“[He] suggested that it might not be safe for the baby, and Courtney, who was only six weeks pregnant, went into a confrontational mode. ‘Is that a medical fact, or is that just your opinion? I want to see it in a medical book.’ She was interested in medical facts, not a sermon. [He] sheepishly acknowledged that at this early stage of pregnancy a woman could discontinue heroin use with no physical or psychological damage to the fetus. Courtney looked triumphant as she towered over the doctor seated at his desk.”

Courtney did stop using heroin, and Frances Bean was born in perfect health on Aug. 18, 1992. Love had no comment on the book. In an interview last year, Frances Bean said: “People are fascinated by me, but I haven’t done anything . . . I’m not my parents.” The tome by Goldberg, who currently manages Love, hits stores in September.

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