Frances Bean Cobain

Frances Bean Cobain was born in Los Angeles, California on August 18, 1992 to rock musician Kurt Cobain and musician/actress Courtney Love. She was named after Frances McKee, the guitarist for the Scottish indie pop duo The Vaselines. The middle name 'Bean' was chosen because Kurt thought she looked like a kidney bean on the ultrasound. Her godfather is R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, and Drew Barrymore is her godmother. She was raised by her mother, her aunts, and her paternal grandmother after her father's death when she was 1 year and 8 months old.
Cobain attended Happy Medium School in Seattle in 1994, now called Giddens School. During her kindergarten year, she attended Highland Hall in Northridge, California. While her mother was filming The People Vs. Larry Flynt in Memphis, TN, Frances attended The Maria Montessori School for a short time. She also attended The Willows Community School, located in Culver City, for elementary school and middle school.
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On 1 April 1994, Cobain visited her father at the Exodus Recovery Center, a rehab center in Marina Del Rey, California, where they played together. This would be the last time Cobain saw her father alive. In the early morning hours of 8 April 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle. A final ceremony was arranged for Kurt Cobain by his mother on 31 May 1999, attended by both Courtney Love and Tracy Marander. As a Buddhist monk chanted, Frances scattered her father's ashes into McLane Creek in Olympia, Washington, the city where he "had found his true artistic muse".