LOS ANGELES, California, United States ? Beleaguered US rocker Courtney Love lost custody Monday of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean, child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, court documents showed.

A Los Angeles judge passed custody of the girl to her grandmother and aunt?Cobain's mother and sister?according to the documents published on the TMZ.com celebrity website.

Reasons for the custody battle are unknown, but it isn't the first time Love, 45, has experienced such problems?Bean was taken under the care of her grandmother in 2003 after Love was arrested for possession of drugs without a prescription.

Love has had a long history of debt, arrests over drugs, and parole violations since Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, near the height of the grunge-rock band's success.