Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ Guitar Fuels Frances Bean Cobain’s Divorce Fire

She then went on to call the guitar a “treasured heirloom” that was meant to stay in the family and said Frances “never planned” on giving it away for good.

The last guitar Kurt Cobain ever played is now out of the family, according to TMZ. The Martin guitar company only made 300 before discontinuing the model, and guitarists consider it great to play.

Frances Bean Cobain’s estranged husband, Isaiah Silva, claims she gave him her father’s Martin D-18E as a wedding present, TMZ reported.

“It’s not his”, Love said about her former son-in-law.

The pair’s trip to the United Kingdom came after a six-year-long estrangement, which began when Kurt’s mother, Wendy, and his sister, Kimberley, were given temporary guardianship of Frances in her teenage years – following a breakdown in her relationship with Courtney. Watch the walk-and-talk interview snippet in the player below.

Frances Bean Cobain filed for divorce earlier this year, citing irreconcilable differences. With an insurance value of $1million, and the expectation of bringing in “several times that amount” if Silva chose to sell it at auction, the guitar is worth too much in too many ways for either side to back down.

“It’s not his, it’s a treasured heirloom of the family’s, it’s not his to take.”

She added: “I’m really glad she’s out of this unsafe and toxic relationship”. It’s also the last guitar he used before taking his own life months later.

The guitar is significant because it’s the instrument he used during his iconic MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. It’s even more unique because it has a replaced bridge and nut that allowed for the left-handed Cobain to play it. At one time it was insured for $1 million and some believe it’s now worth millions.