Richard Lee sued the city of Seattle to release photos of Cobain’s body, believing the musician to have been killed by government officials 
 
 A Seattle court has ruled that photographs from the scene of Kurt Cobain’s death will remain sealed from the public. In 2014, conspiracy theorist Richard Lee had sued the city over the release of the images, believing them to support his long-held view that Cobain was killed by government officials. Cobain’s death on 5 April 1994 was ruled suicide. Court documents state that the images depict “Cobain’s body as it lay in the family residence after he was shot in the head”. 
 
 The court of appeals ruled in favour of Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, and daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, who had sought a ruling “permanently enjoining the City from disclosing, disseminating, releasing, or distributing any death-scene photographs not previously disclosed”, the Blast reports. Lee lost his original suit in 2015 and filed an appeal in 2017. 
 
 Cobain’s next of kin have previously testified in the case. Love has described his death as “the most traumatic experience of my life. It left me physically distraught, and I continue to suffer emotionally from the loss of my husband to this day.” His daughter testified that she had no memory of her father, but “has had to deal with the trauma of his death her entire life”. 
 
 
 
 In April 2016, Love gave a statement accusing Lee of trying to exploit Cobain’s death, which he claims to have been investigating for more than 23 years. Love claimed that Lee “stalked and harassed me, my family and my friends for many, many years … On one particular occasion, Mr Lee even filmed himself chasing a limousine for several miles that he thought I was a passenger in. Mr Lee’s actions make me fear for my safety.” 
 
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 Seattle police have previously made available photographs of the gun that Cobain used to kill himself along with less explicit photographs of the death scene and its aftermath. 
 
 On the 20th anniversary of Cobain’s death in 2014, detective Mike Ciesynski reviewed the case files and said he found no new information to change the police conclusion that Cobain took his own life. He did find four rolls of undeveloped film from the suicide scene. After releasing two of the images in 2014, police released 34 additional photographs taken at the scene following numerous public disclosure requests. 

 Frances Bean Cobain‘s divorce may be settled but she has lost one prized possession to her ex: her father’s famous guitar. 
 
 Kurt Cobain’s daughter settled her divorce to ex Isaiah Silva on Monday in court documents obtained by PEOPLE. 
 
 The 25-year-old married Silva in 2014 and filed for divorce in March 2016. In November, a judge declared the daughter of the Nirvana frontman a single woman despite the fact that the two were still dividing their assets. 
 
 One point of contention between them: the iconic Martin guitar Cobain played during his MTV Unplugged performance in November 1993. Cobain died in the following year in April of suicide. 
 
 Silva claimed the model had given him the guitar as a present, while she denied ever giving it to him. In November, The Blast reported the guitar is worth millions of dollars. 
 
 Kurt Cobain in 1993's MTV Unplugged 
 
 Despite the artist’s request for the judge to keep the guitar in her family, Silva will get to keep it. 
 
 In documents filed at the time, Cobain stated Silva should not be entitled to any money from her father’s estate, which is valued at $450 million. 
 
 The filing asked that all premarital assets including Cobain’s inheritance be awarded to her as separate property. 
 
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 The artist has been dating Matthew Cook since last fall, sharing Instagram photos and videos of him during their time together. 
 
 In April, she shared her first original song on the anniversary of her father’s death in a snippet on Instagram. 
 
 “I think I saw you when I was small/ I think I found you/ A penny for your good thoughts,” she sings in a video. “I think I found you/ Jesus hangs in your place on the cross/ All these hinges become unscrewed / Heaven knows it was a cage on earth.” 
 
 Cobain also writes to a user in the comments section that the full song features “a very freaky deeky line that goes ‘stable sable sold her heart/ no one asks her why she hides it in a casket in her house in a box/ find a fiend who reigns supreme in may/ fast enough for blooming buds to lay their eggs.’” 
 
 Frances Bean Cobain Stefanie Keenan/Getty 
 
 When asked what the Nirvana frontman would think of her foray into songwriting, Frances offered an emotional and thoughtful response. 
 
 “I don’t have an answer for that because I don’t want to speak on someone else’s behalf,” she told E! News on the red carpet of the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards in Los Angeles in April. “I would hope that he would be proud of the human being I am even if he didn’t like the art I am putting out. That’s all I would ask of anyone in my life.” 
 
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 The multi-talented artist also expanded on where she plans to place her creative efforts. 
 
 “With regards to music, I don’t want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist because I feel like it’s all-encompassing and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other,” she explained. “So do I want to pursue my music further and see it come to fruition and see something further and see something palpable? Absolutely.” 

 Kurt Cobain and Nirvana performed on 'MTV Unplugged' in November 1993. (Photo: MTV) 
 
 SEATTLE — Photographs from the scene of Kurt Cobain’s death will not be released to the public, the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. 
 
 The court ruled the photographs are exempt from Washington state’s Public Records Act and releasing the photos would “violate the Cobain family’s due process rights under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.” 
 
 Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, and his daughter who was a toddler at the time of his death, Frances Bean Cobain, filed testimonies to keep the photos from being made public. 
 
 The ruling comes after Seattle journalist Richard Lee appealed the case’s dismissal. Lee has pursued the release of 55 photos in an attempt to prove Cobain did not die from suicide in 1994 but was murdered. 
 
 He has been testing the limits of public records laws for years, and in the process has angered Cobain's family. 
 
 “As both a father and an advocate for victims’ rights, I’m relieved the Court upheld that death-scene images are not appropriate for disclosure,” Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said in a statement. “After a family member endures the tragedy of losing a loved one, we have a moral obligation to protect their privacy. No one should worry whether they’ll happen upon photos of a family member’s body as they scroll through their social media feed.” 
 
 Cobain, the frontman for Seattle grunge band Nirvana, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his Seattle home in 1994. 
 
 Love and her daughter wrote a letter to the judge in the trial court seeking to block the release of the photos. Frances Bean Cobain wrote that she already faces harassment from fans "obsessed" with her father and fears that could get worse. 
 
 "I have had to cope with many personal issues because of my father's death," Cobain wrote. "Coping with even the possibility that those photographs could be made public is very difficult. Further sensationalizing it through the release of these pictures would cause us indescribable pain." 
 
 “As a member of Washington State’s Sunshine Committee, I regularly advocate to open more records for public access, but out of respect to family members, I continue to believe releasing images of a person’s scene of death is out-of-bounds," Holmes said. 
 
 CLOSE The detective on the case of Kurt Cobain's death back in 1994 recently pulled out the file and found four rolls of undeveloped film from inside musician's house the day he died. VPC 
 
 Contributing: Ted Land, KING-TV, Seattle, Associated Press. Follow KING-TV on Twitter: @KING5Seattle 
 
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– A conspiracy theorist who thinks the government killed Kurt Cobain has once again failed to persuade judges that graphic photos of the Nirvana frontman's death should be released. A Seattle court of appeals ruled against Richard Lee this week, saying the photos were exempt from Washington state's Public Records Act and releasing them would violate the Cobain family's due process rights, USA Today reports. Cobain's April 5, 1994 death was ruled a suicide. The singer killed himself with a shotgun, and legal papers state the photos show the body "after he was shot in the head." An earlier lawsuit from Lee seeking the photos was also tossed out, though police released previously unseen photos from the scene in 2014. Release of the photos had been firmly opposed by widow Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain, Guardian reports. In a letter to the judge, Frances, who was a toddler when her father killed himself, wrote that releasing the scene-of-death photos would cause "indescribable pain." She also said she feared such a release would worsen the harassment from obsessed fans she already faces. The 25-year-old is the singer's only child. According to court papers filed Monday as part of a divorce settlement, she has agreed to let ex-husband Isaiah Silva keep the iconic guitar Kurt Cobain played in a Nov. 1993 Unplugged appearance People reports. She had been fighting her ex in court to keep the Martin D-18E guitar, which Silva claimed had been given to him as a wedding present.