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The fight over tragic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s most priceless guitar is heading for a bitter, multimillion-dollar court battle.
Cobain’s daughter with Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain, has been trying to get the instrument – which her father played in Nirvana’s seminal 1993 “MTV Unplugged” concert – back from her estranged husband, Isaiah Silva, ever since they split in March 2016.
Silva, a musician in the band the Eeries, claims that in happier times, Frances Bean gave him the guitar – a Martin D-18E with the bridge flipped so that Kurt could play it left-handed – as a wedding present when they secretly married in 2014. It was once insured for $1 million, but experts say it is now likely worth several times that amount.
Frances Bean, who was not yet 2 years old when her father committed suicide in 1994, denies that she gifted it to Silva.
Love has said of the guitar – believed to be the last Kurt played before his death – “It’s not [Silva’s]. It’s a treasured heirloom of the family. It’s not his to take.”
The guitar is so valuable that Love’s manager has even allegedly sent a string of threatening messages to Silva’s ex-girlfriend in an attempt to get him to hand the historic instrument over. We’re told that after months of negotiation, Silva is still holding out and – according to Frances Bean’s side – is taking “extreme and unsupportable positions” on the disagreement.
“He is forcing the matter to litigation,” we’re told. Meanwhile, sources close to the struggle say it ended in a deadlock, and Frances Bean is ready to take the matter in front of a judge.
An insider tells us, “In September, a judge ordered Frances Bean to pay Silva $15,000 a month in spousal support as part of an interim settlement while they worked out the guitar issue through mediation.”
Battle over Kurt Cobain?s guitar headed to court | Page Six
The fight over tragic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s most priceless guitar is heading for a bitter, multimillion-dollar court battle.
Cobain’s daughter with Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain, has been trying to get the instrument – which her father played in Nirvana’s seminal 1993 “MTV Unplugged” concert – back from her estranged husband, Isaiah Silva, ever since they split in March 2016.
Silva, a musician in the band the Eeries, claims that in happier times, Frances Bean gave him the guitar – a Martin D-18E with the bridge flipped so that Kurt could play it left-handed – as a wedding present when they secretly married in 2014. It was once insured for $1 million, but experts say it is now likely worth several times that amount.
Frances Bean, who was not yet 2 years old when her father committed suicide in 1994, denies that she gifted it to Silva.
Love has said of the guitar – believed to be the last Kurt played before his death – “It’s not [Silva’s]. It’s a treasured heirloom of the family. It’s not his to take.”
The guitar is so valuable that Love’s manager has even allegedly sent a string of threatening messages to Silva’s ex-girlfriend in an attempt to get him to hand the historic instrument over. We’re told that after months of negotiation, Silva is still holding out and – according to Frances Bean’s side – is taking “extreme and unsupportable positions” on the disagreement.
“He is forcing the matter to litigation,” we’re told. Meanwhile, sources close to the struggle say it ended in a deadlock, and Frances Bean is ready to take the matter in front of a judge.
An insider tells us, “In September, a judge ordered Frances Bean to pay Silva $15,000 a month in spousal support as part of an interim settlement while they worked out the guitar issue through mediation.”
Battle over Kurt Cobain?s guitar headed to court | Page Six
