Courtney Love caused the downfall of her husband Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana, according to a new book detailing the late rocker's life.

Former record executive Danny Goldberg writes in his forthcoming memoirs, Bumping Into Geniuses, that the Hole frontwoman led the doomed musician into a world of drugs and debauchery.

In the revealing tome, the author claims Love acted as Cobain's "mouthpiece" and once demanded that Goldberg give them a huge amount of cash which they were allegedly planning to spend on a heroin binge.

He writes, "I felt pretty uncomfortable as I delivered the package of $100 bills to her at the hotel. Abruptly, the dark cloud of drug excess had entered the band's life. I was confronted by the baroque facade of lies and the awful glassy-eyed deadness that regular heroin use provides." He adds, "Courtney's very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band's life and the beginning of another."

The pair married in 1992, having a daughter, Frances Bean, later the same year before Cobain committed suicide in 1994. Bumping Into Geniuses is scheduled to hit shelves later this month.

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