Linda Carroll
Linda Carroll (born 1944, San Francisco) is an American author and the mother of Courtney Love. Carroll was adopted into an Italian Catholic family. She graduated from high school in 1961 and gave birth to Love in 1964. After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the 1970s, she moved to New Zealand. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. As an adult, Carroll found her birth mother, the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox).[1] In 2006, her memoir Her Mother’s Daughter, was published by Doubleday.[2] In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled Love Cycle's.
Carroll, in her autobiography, claimed to be the daughter of Marlon Brando,[3][4] alleging that she had DNA tests done to prove it.[5] Carroll's biological mother, Paula Fox, had an affair with Brando in the 1940s.
References
- ^ http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/no-love-lost-for-a-mothers-lost-love-130646.html
- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-08-24-courtney-love_x.htm
- ^ "Is Marlon Brando de opa van Courtney Love?" (in Template:Nl icon). Film1.nl. August 13, 2003. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Courtney Love". The E! True Hollywood Story. October 5, 2003. E!.
- ^ "Brando 'is Courtney's grandad'". Daily Mail. 2003.
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