Love worked as an erotic dancer, choosing the stage surname Love as a tribute to the motto peace and love.

She briefly attended Portland State University, but never graduated with a degree. Įventually, she moved to Portland, Oregon, still pursuing music, and then on to Los Angeles.

She also developed a friendship with Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen. In his autobiography Head-On, Cope refers to her as 'the adolescent' in place of using her name. In England, she moved into the Toxteth, Liverpool, home of musician Julian Cope, of The Teardrop Explodes, and became a regular at rock shows. Īt 16, Love traveled around the U.S., England and the Republic of Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother's adoptive parents. While in boarding school, Love joined a Bay City Rollers fan club, and, aged 12, applied to join the Mickey Mouse Club she was rejected after reading a poem by Sylvia Plath at the audition. Shortly after reuniting with her family in New Zealand, Love was sent to the boarding school in Nelson. Before arriving in New Zealand, Love had been left in the United States with Shirley, a friend of her mother's, a therapist, while her mother, the new husband and her half-sisters settled in New Zealand. Love spent a troubled childhood with her mother, settled in hippie communes in Oregon. Harrison denies this allegation and has passed polygraph tests however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love's mother. During a child custody case following her parents’ divorce, her mother and one of her friends presented letters implying her father had given the child, then 3 years old, LSD. Love's family broke up soon after her birth. Through her maternal grandmother Paula Fox, Love is related to the mother of actor Douglas Fairbanks.

I’ve spoken to her and she has told me that there is no truth to the suggestion that she is related to Marlon Brando.” Early lifeĬourtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher. Later that month, Carroll's publisher, Doubleday, told the New York Daily News, “There was nothing in Linda Carroll’s book proposal about Marlon Brando, nor will there be anything in the book about him. The reports implied this disclosure would appear in Carroll's memoir. tests that proved that Carroll's father was Marlon Brando. Ĭonflicting news began to appear in August 2003 regarding Love's family tree, with some remarking that Love's mother had taken D.N.A. Carroll's autobiography Her Mother’s Daughter, in 2006, told of her relationship with both adoptive mother and elder daughter. Love's mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, who she discovered was the children's writer Paula Fox.

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