The guitar at the centre of Frances Bean Cobain’s nasty divorce battle is going under the hammer. Kurt Cobain’s daughter gave up her late father’s 1959 Martin D-18E electric-acoustic guitar, which he strummed during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set in 1993 – five months before his death, to settle her divorce battle with Isaiah Silva.
Her ex-husband maintained he was the rightful owner of the instrument after Frances gave the guitar to him as a wedding gift.
Now, the guitar is set to change hands again – it will be on sale at an upcoming Julien’s Auctions Music Icons event, set for June. “In addition, the sale of the guitar comes with its original hard-shell case decorated by Cobain with a flyer from the punk rock band Poison Idea’s 1990 album
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