In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track "Celebrity Skin". At age 14 Courtney Love was arrested for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility a juvenile hall in Salem Oregon.

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; 9 July 1964) is an American singer-songwriter musician actress and artist. Love who grew up primarily in Oregon is the daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll and writer and ex-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison. Love also had an intermittent acting career debuting in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986) and later receiving a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Althea Flynt in Miloš Forman's The People vs.