Courtney LoveCourtney Love has defended allegations that conmen bought a house using her late husband’s name after critics dismissed the claims, saying she was bipolar.

Love - who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain until his suicide in 1994 - launched a police probe last week.

She claims that identity thieves used Cobain’s social security number to buy a $3.2 million mansion in New Jersey last year.

She also alleges that the thieves opened 188 credit cards in her name and embezzled as much as $69 million from the couple and the trust fund of their daughter, 14-year-old Frances Bean. (more…)