Kurt Cobain
Smashed Guitar Up For Grabs
… For a $30K Minimal
Printed April 8, 2025 5:50 AM PDT
Nirvana followers have one thing on the best way … one among Kurt Cobain’s guitars goes up for public sale — and it is acquired fairly a historical past with the late rocker.
TMZ has realized Kurt’s white Fender Stratocaster — which he used and smashed throughout Nirvana’s 1992 European tour — will likely be open to bidders beginning Wednesday morning at 9 AM ET. In the event you’re … it’s going to set you again a minimal of $30K, which is the beginning bid.
The guitar was closely modified and repaired again to working situation all through the favored tour — which occurred because the band’s 1991 album “Nevermind” skyrocketed them to stardom and helped deliver different rock to the mainstream.
Kurt’s personally owned and performed left-handed Stratocaster was obtained by a former crew member who labored with Nirvana between 1991 and 1993. It was then authenticated and inspected by famed Nirvana guitar tech Huge John Duncan … so followers know it is the true deal.
Although the minimal bid is $30,000 … one other one among his smashed Fender Stratocasters from the ’90s offered for over half a mil in 2023. That was after his blue 1969 Fender Mustang featured in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video offered for an astonishing $4.5 million.
The wealthy piece of rock memorabilia is ready to hit the market — on-line at GottaHaveRockAndRoll — simply days after the thirty first anniversary of Kurt’s loss of life. As you realize … he died from a gunshot wound to the top on April 5, 1994 on the age of 27.
Whereas followers have speculated he was murdered through the years, a leaked copy of his alleged post-mortem report made rounds final 12 months because of a non-public investigator named Tom Grant.
The alleged findings declare a suicide word was left in his residence — which is seen in our gallery of the crime scene — and a 20-gauge semiautomatic shotgun was discovered nonetheless in his left hand.
The alleged report additionally says he died with a combination of gear in his physique … and images from the crime scene present a heroin equipment and different paraphernalia in a cigar field.
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Kurt left behind his spouse, Courtney Love, and his daughter, Frances Bean — who lately wed and had a toddler with Tony Hawk’s son — when he died. Now … a fan has an opportunity to carry a bit of his legacy.
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