Courtney accused of murder plot
Musician Isaiah Silva says she orchestrated an attack on him over Kurt Cobain’s guitar
Courtney Love has been accused of plotting to have her daughter’s exhusband 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. Frances 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 had argued that the guitar should remain in her family, but Silva successfully claimed it was his, asFrances had given it to him as a gift.
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 damage. He alleged that Lutfi and two other men “did burglarise, rob, assault, batter, sexually batter, kidnap, and attempt to murder” him at his house in West Hollywood.
Love and her co-defendants are yet to comment on Silva’s allegations. But a source told The New York Post that they were prepared to fight all the way in court over the guitar. — Telegraph Group Ltd, London 2018