Frances Bean wants her late father's guitar back off her estranged husband.
The 24-year-old artist has filed documents asking a court to force Isaiah Silva to return a six-string 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic - the instrument famously played by the late Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session - as she claims he has refused to give it back since she filed for divorce last March.
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According to TMZ, Frances wants the court to allow her to inspect the guitar to ensure it has been kept in perfect condition by her estranged husband and then she wants it handed to an art shipping company for safekeeping until their dispute over the instrument is resolved.
Isaiah has insisted Frances - whose mother is Courtney Love - gave him the guitar as a gift and so it is his to keep, while the brunette beauty insists she would never have given him a "priceless family heirloom".