According to
The Pulse Of Radio,
Frances Bean Cobain has reached a settlement over the division of property in her divorce from ex-husband Isaiah Silva.
TMZ reported that
Silva has won ownership of the famous guitar that
Frances's father, late
NIRVANA frontman
Kurt Cobain, played on the band's classic episode of
"MTV Unplugged".
The rightful owner of the guitar has been a major point of contention throughout the two years of divorce proceedings.
Silva claimed that
Frances gave the 1959 Martin D-18E to him as a present, while
Frances denied ever gifting the instrument to him.
The guitar is estimated to be worth millions of dollars and is said to be only one of 300 made at the time. It is also supposedly the last one
Kurt played before his passing and was reportedly meant to stay within the family.
Although
Frances's mother,
Courtney Love, told
TMZ a while back that the guitar was "not (
Silva's) to take,"
Frances reportedly "wants to move on" and was finally willing to give up the instrument just to get the divorce proceedings over with.
Frances, for her part, gets to keep the house she and
Silva bought together and will not have to pay
Silva spousal support. He was seeking $25,000 a month.
In other
NIRVANA legal news, photos taken at the scene of
Kurt Cobain's suicide will forever remain sealed following a new court ruling in Seattle.
Richard Lee, described in court documents as "a conspiracy theorist who believes that
Mr. Cobain was murdered," originally filed suit against the city of Seattle and its police department in 2014 seeking to have the photos made public.
Having researched
Kurt's death for years and even hosting a public access TV show about it,
Lee sought access to the pictures under Washington State's Public Records Act. His case was thrown out once before in 2015 with a judge declaring that releasing the images would be "highly offensive to a reasonable person."
The Pulse Of Radio asked
Cobain biographer
Charles R. Cross a while back why he thought the conspiracy theories lingered on. "I think the main reason people embrace the conspiracy theory is simply that it's very painful to imagine that
Kurt, someone they loved or maybe identified with, that he betrayed them in some degree by taking his own life," he said. "You know, the bottom line is there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that
Kurt's death was anything other than suicide, and it's almost absurd that the topic continues to come up."
Lee appealed the 2015 ruling last year, prompting
Courtney Love and
Frances Bean Cobain to file documents and testify to block
Lee's case.
But
Lee's appeal has now been turned down, with a Washington appellate court ruling that images taken at the scene in 1994 and developed by the Seattle Police Department in 2014 will likely never be seen by the public.
