"Why can't you just leave me alone? I hate being famous and now it's worse than when I was alive!"Courtney Love is pissed at Dr. Martens shoes because of this advertisement that features Kurt Cobain sitting in on a cloud in heaven adorned in the roach stompers.
Her rep said to PEOPLE:"Courtney had no idea this was taking place and would never have approved such a use. She thinks it's outrageous that a company is allowed to commercially gain from such a despicable use of her husband's picture. It does appear that in the UK what Dr. Martens has done is allowed. Courtney did not, and would not, approve of such a use of Kurt's name and likeness."
The ad is part of a campaign featuring several dead rock stars, including Sid Vicious from The Sex Pistols and Joey Ramone from The Ramones.
Dr. Martens's U.S. office did not immediately return calls to PEOPLE.
Me thinks she's more pissed off that she isn't getting a piece more than the fact that it's in bad taste.
I had no idea they still even made Dr. Martens. I think the last time I saw someone wearing a pair was around 1996. I never wore them personally. I got the real shit--combat boots from the army/navy store. (Holla Kate!) Yeah, we were badass. Or assbad. One of those.
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Parasitic scumbags, the widow is right.
They should've had the decency to ask, accept a rejection if so, and yeah, pay her otherwise.
Totally sick to profit from a tragedy.
Someone who died recently, whose family still mourns, especially.
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