I know that the musical beef I’m supposed to care about today is Drake vs. Pusha T, but I’m at “a pox on both houses” stage with that one. Drake shouldn’t be punching down to increase his own credibility, and Pusha T shouldn’t be questioning Drake’s blackness because he’s a mixed-race Canadian. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, well, you are probably happier for it.
I can muster significantly more excitement for Courtney Love’s beef with Francis Bean Cobain’s ex-husband, Isaiah Silva. That’s partially because I’ve seen Courtney Love in concert more times than I’ve seen Drake in concert (I’m not the black guy you want talking about music). But it’s also because the Love beef involves allegations of attempted murder while the Drake beef involves… manufacturing distaste to sell records.
The Love dispute centers around the guitar Kurt Cobain played during his famous appearance on MTV Unplugged (Google it, millennials). The guitar passed to Cobain and Love’s daughter, Francis Bean Cobain. But Cobain lost the guitar in divorce proceedings with Silva. Cobain had asked that the divorce judge force Silva to give up the guitar, but that did not happen. I think it’s very wrong when somebody loses a family heirloom in a divorce proceeding, but Cobain did not have to give Silva alimony, so I’m not going to cry too much over it.
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Unable to recover the guitar legally, Silva claims that Love, her manager Sam Lutfi, actor Ross Butler, and private investigator John Nazarian hatched a plot to recover the guitar that I assume has been locked in heart-shaped box for weeks.
And now I’m going to blockquote People in a legal story:
Silva claims in his lawsuit that Lutfi, Butler and Yan Yukhtman “entered into a criminal conspiracy to commit trespass, burglary, home invasion robbery, assault, battery, kidnapping, and murder” against him in order to take the guitar on the morning of June 3.
He also claims they were going to kidnap him from his home to “end any potential legal claims [he] may have to the Curson property, the Willoughby Trust and any spousal support,” according to his complaint.
Silva alleges Nazarian and Schenk “did assault and cause physical injury to Silva’s mother while in Silva’s presence and with the intent of terrorizing and intimidating Silva.”
Of note: Love et al. have not been charged by the, you know, prosecutors for this alleged criminal activity. This is a civil complaint. Silva claims that when the police were called, Love’s manager, Lutfi, “hurriedly concocted a false story intended to prevent LAPD from arresting them.” Normally, I’d say that was a pretty big hole in Silva’s complaint, if the police showed up and found nothing worth arresting anybody over, it’s hard to believe that attempted murder was happening under their noses.
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But… this is the LAPD. I totally believe that they could be called to the scene of an attempted murder and be talked out of it by a manager for a no-longer-relevant musician. Like a liar at a witch trial, Silva’s story looks good for its age.
To me, the moral equities lie with Love. I thought Cobain died alone, a long, long time ago. But Cobain’s guitar is still there and it shouldn’t belong to Silva. I’m not saying that Love should have her people go rough him up and take it but… Silva’s made his bed, he’ll lie in it. He’s made his bed, he’ll die in it.
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Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.