She was one of Imperial Records' best-selling artists, but when sales began to wane in the late-1960s, compounded by the devastating effects of Hurricane Camille on many of the clubs in New Orleans where she worked, she announced her semi-retirement from music.
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According to Julien, his family is selling his personal effects to start a trust fund for Frances, Cobain's 12-year-old daughter.
Authors Hamid Mehran, Robert Battalio, and Paul Schultz looked at the effects of the short-selling ban instituted on September 19 in the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in a paper titled Market Declines: What Is Accomplished by Banning Short-Selling.
They're very concerned, he insists, about what Frances will think about her relatives' selling her father's effects--the Monterey auction included such curiosities as a doctor bill and Cobain's old W-2 form from his stint as a janitor.