The Blast reports that Courtney Love will be testifying in court to help her daughter Frances Bean Cobain regain possession of a classic guitar that belonged to Kurt Cobain. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Frances Bean Cobain plans to call Courtney as a witness as part of Cobain’s ongoing fight with her estranged husband Isaiah Silva.
Cobain filed for divorce from Silva in February 2016. The former couple married in June 2014 and when they split, she listed her father’s estate as her own separate property in court docs.
Months later, Silva claimed in court documents that Frances gifted him her father’s Martin D-18E guitar — which is worth millions — as a wedding present. Kurt played the guitar during his “MTV Unplugged” show and reportedly only 300 of them were made.
Frances denies giving her soon-to-be ex-husband the guitar and demanded he return it. The battle over Kurt’s guitar has waged on for months with the trial for the divorce coming up soon.
In addition to Courtney’s testimony, Frances will also be presenting evidence in the trial including photos of the guitar, photos of a guitar shop, receipts from the shop and text messages from her ex to a third party.
Cobain and Silva’s divorce has been ugly, with Silva at one point claiming an associate of Courtney Love had threatened his life, and he got in touch with infamous Kurt Cobain murder conspiracy theorist Tom Grant.
In January it was reported that Frances Bean Cobain’s legal battle with her estranged husband Isaiah Silva over her late father Kurt Cobain’s guitar had escalated. Page Six reports:
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.
The article also states:
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.”
Reps for an attorney for Silva didn’t get back to us.
