Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawk in early October
Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawkson of skateboarder Tony Hawk, in early October. The first time she played the role of bride in a wedding ceremony was alongside Isaiah Silvaa union that lasted from 2014 to 2016. The relationship, however, did not end amicably.
Valued at millions of dollars, the guitar used by Kurt Cobain on MTV Unplugged Nirvanain 1993, was the subject of dispute between the couple. Silva claimed during the divorce proceedings that the instrument was given to him as a wedding gift, which French denied.
Still in 2016, the businessman Sam Luftithe actor Ross Butler and the private investigator John Nazarian were accused of breaking into the house of Isaiahkidnapping and attacking him so that he would return the guitar and interrupt the battle in court (via Entertainment Weekly). Courtney Love filed a restraining order against Luftiwhich was granted.
Silva He was unable to touch his ex-wife’s inheritance of around US$450 million, but the court ruled in 2018 that he could keep the guitar. The instrument did not stop in their hands. Two years after winning the court case, Isaiah seems to have grown tired of the gift, which was auctioned off. Peter Freedman took the Martin D-18E for US$6,010,000.
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Source: Rollingstone
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