Courtney Love has been fighting to halt the release of a new film which theorises she helped orchestrate the death of her rocker husband Kurt Cobain.
The Hole frontwoman's legal team has issued a cease and desist order against cinemas slated to screen controversial new film Soaked in Bleach by director Benjamin Statler.
The movie centres around private investigator Tom Grant, hired by Love to find the Nirvana singer who went missing in March, 1994 after he left a substance abuse treatment facility in Los Angeles.
Grant recorded many of the conversations he had with Love up until Cobain was found dead the following month, and many of the recordings, along with reenactments, make up the Soaked in Bleach film, which ultimately suggests the rock icon's death was not a suicide.
In legal documents obtained by Deadline.com, Love's lawyers state: "The film falsely presents a widely and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that accuses Ms Cobain of orchestrating the death of her husband Kurt Cobain. A false accusation of criminal behaviour is defamatory ... which entitles Ms Cobain to both actual and presumed damages."
