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        <title><![CDATA[Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ guitar going to auction despite family’s best efforts]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Kurt Cobain’s</strong> daughter, <strong>Frances Bean Cobain</strong>, and widow, <strong>Courtney Love</strong>, are about to lose a vicious tug-of-war over his famed “Unplugged” guitar that has raged on for years — a battle that’s involved alleged death threats and murder plots, private investigators and multiple ugly lawsuits.</p><p>As recently as July, Love and Frances were mounting a new legal attempt to wrest the instrument back from <strong>Frances’ ex-husband, Isaiah Silva</strong>. But on Monday, auction house <strong>Julien’s announced</strong> that the guitar will be on the block in late June.</p><p>It is not confirmed who the seller is, but since Love has called it “a treasured heirloom of the family,” it is clear they are not behind the sale — suggesting it’s being sold by Silva.</p><p>In 2014, Frances, the late Nirvana frontman’s only child, secretly married <strong>obscure musician Silva</strong> — and when they split acrimoniously in 2016, Silva kept the 1959 Martin D-18E that Kurt played in the legendary 1993 “MTV Unplugged” session, claiming that Frances had given it to him as a wedding gift.</p><p>After Silva refused to return it as part of the divorce agreement, Love fumed, “It’s not [Silva’s]. It’s a treasured heirloom of the family. It’s not his to take.”</p><p>Page Six later reported that <strong>Love had enlisted Sam Lutfi</strong>, the notorious former manager of Britney Spears, to mount a campaign to <strong>pressure Silva to hand it over</strong> — even allegedly threatening the mother of Silva’s son, telling her their child would end up in an orphanage.</p><p>Yet, in May 2018, a judge gave Silva the legendary instrument in the divorce settlement. But the battle roared on, with <strong>Silva filing a lawsuit</strong> accusing Love and Lutfi, among others, of attempting to kill him to get it back. This past July, <strong>Love was demanding</strong> that Silva be given a psych evaluation as part of that suit.</p><p>Julien’s Auctions said the guitar will go on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in London before the sale. Love and Frances didn’t immediately comment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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