Who is Walter Dean Mathiesen

From "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z. Brite.

She also met acid-tongued scenester Dean Matthiesen, who until late 1996 ran her household in Seattle. Dean's theater troupe, the Bad Actors, often performed at the Met. Once Courtney volunteered to assist in a performance without knowing what was going to happen. Dean tied her up, blindfolded her, and beat her with a frozen fish while singing "The Man Who Got Away." At this time, Courtney was assigned a new social worker who actually bothered to read her thick file. Seeing that there was a bit of family money available, the woman recommended that her young charge be granted legal and financial emancipation from her parents. The court set up a trust fund that allowed Courtney about five hundred dollars each month. With that and her stripping income, she was able to rent an apartment in northwest Portland.

From "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z. Brite.

Then she put on one of Kurt's sweaters, crawled into bed and swallowed any drug that anyone brought her.

She got quite a lot. An endless stream of people flowed in and out of the bedroom, consoling, gawking, stealing things. She surrounded herself with people she trusted, Kat Bjelland, Wendy O'Connor, Dean Matthiesen. Nevertheless, almost all of Kurt's sweaters disappeared over the next few days. She discovered later that two reporters from a national magazine had been found in the bedroom trying to get her to talk.

From "The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain" by Mathew Richer and Tom Grant. pages 284 to 285.

Now here's the interesting thing. Whenever I accepted an assignment from Courtney I usually insisted on being paid a retainer in advance, but it was always an involved process. Sometimes her personal assistant, Dean Mathison, would call me and ask how much I needed for a retainer, and other times Courtney would call herself. But each time Dean would overnight me a check, Courtney would have to get the funds released from the Cobain Trust, which irritated her to no end.

From "The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain" by Mathew Richer and Tom Grant. pages 343 to 344.

Courtney: "The whole thing with a confidentiality agreement is simply just so that I don't, I mean, I trust you but I get paranoid about everything. It doesn't mean you can't talk about me. It just means that if you want to [talk to the press], you call me. We're in pretty much tandem anyway. I told you, I don't mind that you're attributed to the Cobain Case. You're a good P.I. Better than fucking, I've met six, and they're all sleazebags. You're the first one that's come through. You know what I mean? It's not like I'm gonna fucking say 'No.' I just don't want, not that Ben or Chris would ever do this. But, I don't know. What happens if I turn into a crack addict? What happens if Ben turns into a crack addict? You know what I mean? It's for my protection. It's not an insult to you. Everybody's done it.” Tom: "Yeah, well, I told Dean I'd look at it. I have to look at it and read it before I can decide."

From "Love and Death" by Max Wallace & Ian Halperin

pages 129 to 130.

Later, Courtney spoke to Seattle Post-Intelligencer rock critic Gene Stout, and Caitlin Moore was still clearly on her mind. Without mentioning Caitlin by name, Courtney told Stout that she had repeatedly called the Seattle Police Department to get them to bust Kurt's dealer, complaining that she couldn't shut down her husband's drug sources. "It's like apples in an orchard," she says about heroin. "It's falling off the trees. The Seattle police won't do any- thing about it. I asked them, 'Don't you get embarrassed when you hear that Seattle is famous for grunge, cappuccino and heroin?"", later, Dylan Carlson introduced us to a drug dealer named "Walter," who told us that he found this particular quote ironic. "At the time she said this, she was shooting up a couple of hundred dollars worth of heroin a day," he told us. "I know because I sold it to her."