The same 12 months, Cox forged her in a number one role in his movie Straight to Hell , a Spaghetti Western starring Joe Strummer and Grace Jones filmed in Spain in 1986. The film caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who featured Love in an episode of Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes. She also had a component in the 1988 Ramones music video for “I Wanna Be Sedated”, appearing as a bride among dozens of party friends.
It garnered Hole’s only number-one single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with “Celebrity Skin”. Hole promoted the album via MTV performances and at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards, and have been nominated for three Grammy Awards on the forty first Grammy Awards ceremony. Born to countercultural dad and mom in San Francisco, Love had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, the place she played in a sequence of short-lived bands and was lively in the native punk scene. After briefly being in a juvenile hall, she spent a year residing in Dublin and Liverpool earlier than returning to the United States and pursuing an performing career.
She sued the ex-wife of her then-boyfriend, James Barber, whom Love alleged had caused the injury by running over her foot along with her Volvo. The following 12 months, she returned to movie opposite Lili Taylor in Julie Johnson , during which she played a girl who has a lesbian relationship; Love gained an Outstanding Actress award at L.A.’s Outfest. She was then solid in the fashion land models thriller Trapped , alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron. Love’s first main media publicity got here in a September 1992 profile with Cobain for Vanity Fair by Lynn Hirschberg, entitled “Strange Love”. Cobain had turn into a significant public determine following the shock success of Nirvana’s album Nevermind. Love was urged by her manager to take part in the cowl story.
In May 2011, she donated six of her husband Cobain’s private vinyl data for public sale at Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation event for victims of kid abuse, rape, and home violence. Critics have noted that Love’s later musical work is extra lyrically introspective. Celebrity Skin and America’s Sweetheart are lyrically centered on superstar life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, whereas persevering with Love’s interest in self-importance and physique image.
In the same year, Love was cast in Justin Kelly’s biopic JT LeRoy, portraying a movie producer opposite Laura Dern. In March 2018, she appeared within the music video for Marilyn Manson’s “Tattooed in Reverse”, and in April she appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race. In December, Love was awarded a restraining order towards Sam Lutfi, who had acted as her supervisor for the previous six years, alleging verbal abuse and harassment. Her daughter, Frances, and sister, Jaimee, were additionally awarded restraining orders towards Lutfi. In January 2019, a Los Angeles County judge prolonged the three-year order to five years, citing Lutfi’s tendency to “prey upon folks”. Love’s appearance as a roaster on the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson in August 2005, during which she appeared intoxicated and disheveled, attracted further media attention.
In late 1997, Hole launched the compilations My Body, the Hand Grenade and The First Session, both of which featured beforehand recorded materials. Love attracted media attention in May 1998 after punching journalist Belissa Cohen at a party; the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. In September 1998, Hole released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark energy pop sound that contrasted with their earlier punk influences. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan co-wrote several songs.
