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" On November 18, 1993 Kurt Cobain sat down with Nirvana in New York&amp;#039;s Sony Music Studios wearing a tattered cardigan and carrying a 1959 Martin D-18E guitar. A few months after that MTV Unplugged set, which became one of the band&amp;#039;s most iconic performances, Kurt Cobain shot himself. A year later, the performance was released as a live album, which was certified five times platinum by 1997. Since then, many regard it as one of the greatest albums of all time, partly because of the performance and partly because it captures the Cobain&amp;#039;s raw emotional turmoil in an intimate, stripped-down setting. It has become part of music mythology\u2014one that everyone wants to physically own. Last year the sweater Cobain wore during that performance\u2014the ratty, grey thing that&amp;#039;s been seen millions of times on TV and DVD viewings\u2014sold for $137,000 in an auction. It&amp;#039;s a price that would probably make Cobain sick.        But what about the actual item from that performance that is worth money on its own? That 1959 Martin D-18E guitar is one of only 300 ever made, and worth thousands. This specific one from the MTV Unplugged performance is also the last known guitar that Cobain ever played. It&amp;#039;s worth millions. And since Cobain&amp;#039;s death in 1994, it&amp;#039;s been passed around the family from Courtney Love to the couple&amp;#039;s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Today, however, the guitar&amp;#039;s fate is a up in the air: Frances and her ex-husband Isaiah Silva are embroiled in a messy divorce, and Silva refuses to return the guitar. TMZ reports that Silva claims that Frances gave him the guitar as a wedding present, which Frances denies. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not his to take,&amp;quot; Courtney Love told TMZ. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a treasured heirloom of the family&amp;#039;s.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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