Love will find a way
Former son-in-law alleges Courtney Love tried to have him murdered over Cobain guitar
Courtney Love has been accused of plotting to have her daughter’s ex-husband killed in a bid to retrieve a guitar that belonged to Kurt Cobain.
Isaiah Silva, a musician, was married to Frances Bean Cobain, the only child of Love and Cobain, from 2014 until Cobain filed for divorce in March 2016. Under the terms of their divorce, Silva was entitled to keep a highly valuable 1959 Martin D -18E guitar that the Nirvana frontman played during an MTV Unplugged performance in 1993.
During the divorce proceedings, Frances Cobain had argued that the guitar should remain in her family, but Silva successfully claimed it was his, as she had given it to him as a gift.
At the time, Nirvana fans were critical of the guitar being awarded to Silva, who is the frontman of The Eeries.
Now Silva, 33, has alleged that Love, her manager Sam Lutfi — Britney Spears’s former manager — and a group of men attempted to kidnap and kill him in June 2016 to get the guitar back.
He filed a 329-page civil suit in a Los Angeles court seeking unspecified damages.
He alleged that Lutfi and two other men “did burglarize, rob, assault, batter, sexually batter, kidnap and attempt to murder” him at his house in West Hollywood. Silva alleged he was in his bedroom with a fellow member of his band when he heard noise downstairs and the house’s alarm system went off.
According to the complaint, men at the door shouted: “Police, open up!” and “LAPD, open the door!” Silva claimed that once inside, Lutfi grabbed his genitals through his clothes and accused the three men of “terrorizing ” his mother, who was also in the house.
Silva claimed the men were going to kidnap him from his home to end any legal claims he was making for spousal support, and to get the guitar back. The trio allegedly forced him out of his home and into a black Cadillac Escalade while his friend called the police. When they arrived, Lutfi “hurriedly concocted a false story intended to prevent LAPD from arresting them,” Silva claimed in his complaint.
Love and her co-defendants had yet to comment on Silva’s allegations.
Court documents at the time suggested Frances Cobain was worth around US$75 million, from her father’s estate. She was one year old when Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994.