Courtney Love Wants To Sell Home -- Cobain Fans There `All The Time,' She Says

One of Seattle's most popular tourist attractions may be for sale.

Courtney Love has told a London newspaper that she is selling the Seattle home she bought with husband Kurt Cobain months before the singer for Nirvana committed suicide three years ago. Though the house is not on the area's multiple-listing service, a source close to Love said this morning that it is for sale.

"I have a nice house, but I can't live there," Love said in yesterday's Independent newspaper. "Kids everywhere all the time."

But the Seattle real-estate agent who sold them the house could not confirm this morning that it was back on the market.

Since Cobain shot himself at age 27 in the carriage-house of the mansion, devoted fans have flocked to little Viretta Park next door to light candles and sing Cobain's songs.

Love, lead singer of the band Hole and actress in "The People vs. Larry Flynt," said she and her 4 1/2-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, will move to Los Angeles, and buy a horse farm in Olympia.

Built in 1902 but remodeled recently, the mansion has nearly 7,000-square feet of space, including six bedrooms, five fireplaces and four bathrooms, according to property records. The building where Cobain died has been torn down. Surrounded by tall bushes, the house, on Lake Washington Boulevard East, is difficult to see from the street, though it is visible from Viretta Park. Since Cobain's suicide, Love has posted guards at the property 24 hours a day.

The house could fetch $6.4 million, the newspaper said. Love had refused previous offers for the house. "They were never going to live here," she said. "They just wanted it. As what? A . . . museum?"

Material from the Associated Press is included in this report.