Billboard is reporting new details on Frances Bean Cobain’s ex-husband Isaiah Silva’s lawsuit alleging that Courtney Love tried to have him murdered, detailing how she allegedly tried to stage his suicide. Note that there is zero proof of this offered in the lawsuit, and Courtney Love and her lawyers have not offered a response yet.
As Silva and Cobain worked to amicably settle their divorce without attorneys, the lawsuit says the guitar became a point of contention for Love and Lutfi and the two “became obsessed with finding a way to retrieve the guitar from Silva.”
From there, Love, Lutfi, Butler and a chauffeur named Yan Yukhtman allegedly hacked into Silva’s iMessage account and sent out messages “making it appear Silva was despondent and on a mental precipice contemplating suicide.” This was allegedly part of a plan to commit a home invasion, kidnap Silva, murder him, make it appear to be a suicide and recover the guitar, as well as remove him from claims to the couple’s house, another house they had acquired for Silva’s daughter Arlo and her mother and any spousal support.
Silva reported the suspicious activity to the Los Angeles Police Department, noting, according to the suit, that it follows “a disturbingly similar pattern and course of conduct to the modus operandi of Lutfi” in various previous harassment cases. From there, things worsens, as Lutfi and Love allegedly began threatening Silva’s friends, family and bandmates in attempt to turn them against Silva.
