Courtney Love: Marlon Brando Not My Grandfather

On April 1st, Courtney Love dropped a wild family bombshell on Billy Corrigan's podcast this week.

The 61-year-old whole front woman said she used to believe Marlon Brando was her grandfather

because the actor reportedly hooked up with her.

Grandma, novelist Paula Fox, back in the day, she even pushed Warren Beatty, Brando's neighbor,

to set up a meeting. Love wrote Brando a note saying she wanted nothing from him, no name change,

or cash. When they met, she found him super off-putting, which she thought confirmed the family

tie. Turns out, their one meeting with Fox was a disaster. Fox called Love, awful in a 2013 interview,

saying the hour felt like time in the devil's pocket. Love fired back that the dislike was shocking,

but she joked she kind of resembled a young Brando before her first nose job. Love later learned

Brando wasn't the guy after all. Her real grandfather was just a very tall man, no Hollywood

drama there. Fox and Brando had overlapped living with acting coach Stella Abler in the early 1940s

when Fox got pregnant with Love's mom. Fox gave up Love's mom, Linda Carroll, for adoption,

and Love only connected the dots as an adult. Brando, who had at least 11 kids, passed in 2004

at 80. Love's glass she kept her word and does that name swap. This has been Entertainment and

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