KURT Cobain's widow Courtney Love has been offered $50,000 to take a filmed polygraph test to prove she was not involved in his death.
Bestselling author Ian Halperin is making the offer after Cobain’s purported autopsy report was leaked online two weeks ago.
The document confirmed that the star, just 27, died by suicide after turning a shotgun on himself at his Seattle home in April 1994.
But Canadian documentary maker Halperin, 59, argued in a book last year that the In Bloom singer had 70 times the lethal dose of heroin in his system at the time of his death and could not have killed himself.
And he told The U.S. Sun last year that he was challenging Love to take a polygraph test to prove that she had nothing to do with Cobain's death.
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Love has always strenuously denied any suggestions of being involved in Cobain’s death.
Halperin promised to take out a billboard in New York’s Times Square proclaiming her innocence if she passed the test.
Halperin exclusively told The U.S. Sun, “I want to update my offer.
“If Courtney agrees to take the test and she passes, she gets her choice.
“I'll either take out that billboard in Times Square or a person, who is in the long time music industry executive, has offered to give her $50,000 cash if she passes.
“I am keen to find the truth.
“I just want her to finally clear this and get to the truth in our lifetime.
“A polygraph would be a step to erase the doubt forever.”
Halperin previously made headlines when he offered Prince Andrew $100 million to take a polygraph test on live television about his dealings with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the royal's accuser Virginia Giuffre.
He says that he was approached last year by an alleged Courtney Love associate asking whether there would be a fee involved if she took a lie-detector test.
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Halperin said, “Somebody, who said they were close to her, called me and said ‘Are you offering her money?’
I would take out a billboard in Times Square, which I would pay for, saying ‘Courtney's innocent’ if she passed."
Ian Halperin
“I made it clear I was offering her the chance to clear her name and that I would take out a billboard in Times Square, which I would pay for, saying ‘Courtney's innocent’ if she passed.
“I think the person was just fishing.
“Maybe they researched the offer of $100 million I made to Prince Andrew for a lie-detector test and thought that I had money.
“With the Andrew offer I had a backer, a multimillionaire whose daughter was abused, and he wanted to hear what the Prince had to say.”
Halperin claims he now has the backing for his offer to Love of a “well-known executive” who believes the conspiracy theory that Cobain was murdered.
SUICIDE NOTE
Cobain’s purported autopsy report was leaked online by private investigator Tom Grant, who was initially hired by Love to investigate her husband’s death.
It has never been made public before due to Washington state privacy laws.
The alleged report states that Cobain had substances including morphine, codeine, and diazepam in his blood plus opiates and benzodiazepines in his urine and track marks along his right arm.
Like Halperin, Grant is also skeptical of the official version and wrote that the report brought nothing new to the investigation other than a “huge added lie” about Cobain’s purported suicide note.
The report states, "A note indicating suicidal intent was found in the residence."
But Grant believes the note was originally written by Cobain to tell fans he was quitting the music industry with “strange added lines at the bottom of that note.”
The former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective wrote, “I’ve always said, as far back as the mid 1990s, ‘There will be nothing…' and now I can say, ‘There is nothing…' in the autopsy report that could not be duplicated by a staged suicide.”
In his book Case Closed: The Cobain Murder: The Killing And Cover Up of Kurt Cobain, Halperin also argued last year that there are issues with Cobain’s suicide note.
He told The U.S. Sun, "The five final lines of the suicide note were not in Kurt Cobain's handwriting.
“That's the only section of the suicide note that deals with suicide.
“And it was in a completely different handwriting.
“I had it examined years ago, by two top handwriting experts in the world.
"The five final lines of the suicide note were not in Kurt Cobain's handwriting."
Ian Halperin
“They both concluded unwaveringly that it was not in Kurt Cobain's handwriting.”
The U.S. Sun reported on Friday that Halperin claims that the coroner who carried out Cobain’s autopsy told him that he had been intimate with Love.
He said medical examiner Dr. Nikolas Hartshorne admitted to him that he had a “conflict of interest” when ruling that Cobain killed himself.
Halperin also alleged Dr. Hartshorne - who died in a BASE jumping accident in Switzerland in 2002 - was a Nirvana and Courtney Love super fan who lacked the necessary expertise in toxicology.
He added that the medical examiner confessed during an interview with him in 1996 that he should have been recused from the autopsy.
Case Closed: The Cobain Murder: The Killing And Cover Up of Kurt Cobain is available on Amazon.
The U.S. Sun contacted Courtney Love’s representative asking for comment but did not hear back.
