Courtney Love accused of plot to kill ex son-in-law over 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. 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, Cobain had argued that the guitar should remain in her family, but Silva successfully claimed it was his, as Cobain 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’ 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.

In the complaint he claimed: ‘‘The primary objective of their conspiracy was to locate and take possession of a guitar believed to be worth millions of dollars, which was gifted to Silva, by Frances, on January 8, 2014, six months prior to their June marriage.’’

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.

The divorce between Cobain and Silva took over a year to be finalised amid legal wrangling, including over the guitar.

According to the eventual settlement Silva got the guitar and Cobain kept a house they had bought. – Telegraph Group