UPDATE May 5: Love told the Seattle Times in a May 2 email she, not Cobain, wrote the note in question, and that she meant for it to be read in a sarcastic tone. The singer claimed she penned it in 1991, three years before her husband’s death. 
 
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 A shocking note discovered in Kurt Cobain’s wallet at the time of his death has been released twenty years after his drug-fueled suicide— and it’s sure to add fuel to the fire for theorists who believe the rocker’s wife, Courtney Love, was somehow connected to his tragic demise. 
 
 The Nirvana frontman was found dead of a shotgun wound to the head in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994. He was 27. 
 
 CBS News first reported that the hand-written note, scribbled on stationary from San Francisco’s Phoenix Hotel, seems to mock the troubled young couple’s 1992 marriage vows. “Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife,” the paper begins, “even when she’s a b**ch with zits and siphoning all (your) money for doping and whoring…” 
 
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 Cobain’s negative portrayal of former Hole singer Love— who very publicly battled heroin addiction alongside her husband— is in stark contrast to the loving language from the suicide note discovered near his body. 
 
 “I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy,” Cobain wrote in the infamous letter. 
 
 Though a recent Seattle Police Department review of the case confirmed the medical examiner’s original conclusion that the death was indeed a suicide, the newly disclosed note is sure to rock the music world. 
 
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 In 2004, journalists Ian Halperin and Max Wallace released Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, which suggested that Love killed her husband after a period of turmoil in their marriage. 
 
 Love, the estranged mother of Cobain’s now 21-year-old daughter Frances Bean, recently honored her late husband with his bandmates at Nirvana’s induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in New York on April 10. 
 
 “I married a guy, he killed himself, I inherited everything,” Love, now 49, told Spin magazine in 2010. “That’s the way it goes.” 

 LOS ANGELES - A note discovered in the wallet of music legend Kurt Cobain at the time of his death, but kept secret until now, promises to add fuel to the pop culture fascination with Cobain and stoke further questions about what role his famously troubled personal life and marriage played in his demise. 
 
 When police arrived to find Cobain dead at his Seattle area home on April 8, 1994, from what the King County Medical Examiner would determine was a suicide, the note was taken from his wallet, logged into evidence days later in the Seattle Police Department (SPD) case file, and never made public. 
 
 The release of the note by Seattle police follows a recent revelation that the police decided to review internal files regarding the rock star's death in anticipation of media and fan attention to the 20-year-anniversary which occurred at the beginning of the month. As part of that process, the SPD released dozens of never-before-seen police photos from the scene where Cobain's body was found, and then on Monday, a detective's full report on the re-examination of the suicide file. 
 
 In response to public information requests filed by CBS News, the SPD provided hundreds of pages of copies of police reports and evidence recovered at the home of Kurt Cobain when his body was found, including the never-before-released hand-written note. 
 
 At the time of his death there was much speculation within the music industry and among fans about the stormy, drug-addled relationship between Cobain and his rock-star wife Courtney Love. The note may show the author, presumably Cobain, poking sarcastic fun at the marriage; or perhaps it reveals a deep-seated resentment toward Love about drugs, sex, rock and roll... and money. One might even imagine two lovers penning the note together, fully aware of the scrutiny their relationship engendered. 
 
 The note, which is not dated, begins as a seemingly direct parody of standard Christian marriage vows, starting with the words, "Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife..." It goes on to say, "even when she's a b**ch with zits and siphoning all (your) money for doping and whoring..." 
 
 Speculation and questions surrounding the circumstances of Cobain's death have endured for 20 years. Conspiracy theorists and some fans still suspect he was murdered and challenge police characterization of another note from the death scene as Cobain's handwritten suicide note. 
 
 The handwriting on both appears to a lay person remarkably similar, if the sentiments are not. The wallet note referring to Love as a "b**ch"..."siphoning money for doping and whoring" is in stark contrast to the presumed suicide note, which calls Love a "goddess... who sweats ambition and empathy." 
 
 The note is written on stationery from the Phoenix Hotel, billing itself "an urban resort" on the outskirts of San Francisco's gritty, crime-ridden Tenderloin district. The Phoenix had a reputation then, as now, as being popular with a rock 'n roll hipster clientele, offering "more than a little edge." 
 
 Courtney Love's attorneys did not recall phone calls inquiring about the note. 
 
 
 
 The SPD review confirmed the King County Medical Examiner's original determination that Cobain's death was a suicide, concluding that he used a shotgun to shoot himself after taking what would have otherwise been a lethal dose of heroin.
– One of the foremost experts on Kurt Cobain says the late grunge rocker did not pen a note mocking his wedding vows to fellow musician Courtney Love. Love herself wrote it, says Seattle author Charles Cross, who has written several books on Cobain. Cross says Love emailed him to say that she wrote the note and that she gave it to Cobain before their wedding in 1991. "Early in their relationship, they wrote notes like that to each other constantly," Cross said. "The handwriting is absolutely Courtney's." Police found the note in Cobain's wallet after he killed himself in 1994. It received media attention last week after CBS News published it, saying it was presumably written by Cobain and that it was sure to stoke questions about what role his marriage played in his death. "The note was promoted as Kurt mocking their wedding vows three years after they were married. It just doesn't make any sense," Cross says.