Maybe he called the whole thing off, fearing the bad publicity would taint it. Who knows? It would certainly be understandable for a person accused of sex crimes to avoid the spotlight. It would be the most understandable thing in this story, but Townshend hasn’t explained, and no one has asked him to. You’d think, “Hey, remember that time you were a registered sex offender? What happened there?” would be a question in every interview for the rest of his life, but that’s the British commitment to propriety for you.
Courtney Love’s Ex-Son-in-Law Claimed That She Tried to Have Him Killed Over A Guitar
It is inadvisable, to say the least, to mess with Courtney Love. Sure, she almost certainly didn’t kill her late husband, but do you really want to take a chance with someone who is even a rumored murderer? At the very least, you’re probably looking at some very unpleasant late-night phone calls and maybe an errant fist to the face. You definitely don’t want to mess with anyone she was rumored to have murdered or the physical embodiment of all she has left of them, which is where Isaiah Silva went wrong. Two years after he and Love’s daughter, artist Frances Bean Cobain, divorced in 2016, a judge awarded him the guitar that Kurt Cobain famously played during Nirvana’s appearance on MTV Unplugged, which he claimed the younger Cobain had given him as an engagement gift. He was also awarded $12,000 a month in spousal support after asking for $25,000. Did he really think Courtney Love was just going to take that?
Well, maybe she did. We might never know. What we do know is that, in 2018, Silva claimed that two years earlier, a motley crew of Love’s associates — including then-manager Sam Lufti, notorious for hilariously mishandling Britney Spears’s career in the 2000s, and Ross Butler, an actor best known for playing an only kind of terrible jock on Thirteen Reasons Why — broke into his house in the dead of night to take back the guitar. Having failed to do that, the gang “allegedly beat and groped Silva, stole his phone, then dragged him into a waiting Escalade and drove away.” Silva claimed he believes he would have been killed had it not been for the quick thinking of a friend no one knew remained behind in the house but that Lufti coerced him into explaining it to police as a big misunderstanding. Two years later, he filed a 300-page lawsuit against Love for, you know, all that.
Then he seemed to have just kinda dropped it. The case dragged on for a few years, then Sam Lufti — long since fired by Love — was ordered to hand over his cell phone records, but then Silva apparently stopped showing up or responding to court orders. Did Love threaten him into silence? Did Lufti? Was Love never involved in the first place? Was Silva lying? No one has any incentive to answer these questions. Incidentally, the guitar was auctioned off by an “anonymous seller” in 2020, breaking several world records in the process.
Did Silva have every reason to get that thing off his hands? Yes. Is it within the realm of possibility that Love strong-armed it out of him just to auction it off out of spite? Also yes.
Don Johnson’s Mystery $8 Billion Dollars In Bonds
He’s now known mostly as the father of the star of Fifty Shades of Grey, but in 2002, Don Johnson was known for … not much. Sure, he was hot shit in the ’80s, but a 2003 LA Times article described him as the star of “1996’s Tin Cup with Kevin Costner,” which was almost more devastating than its speculation on what looked like serious white-collar crime. Let’s back up.
See, Johnson was all too aware that his career was in something of a valley in 2002. He was trying, he insisted, to change that, which is how he found himself in Switzerland … to meet with “unnamed Americans” … to arrange financing for some movies. He claims he asked for proof that they could deliver, so they handed over a collection of “credit notes and other securities” worth $8 billion. What was he trying to make? Mission to Actually Mars?
He then headed to Germany with his assistant, an “unnamed Swiss financial advisor,” and possibly a third unidentified person for a sneak peek at a new Mercedes model (“He’s a car buff,” his publicist explained), but the international road trip was cut short by German officials, who found a briefcase containing the financial documents in Johnson’s trunk and decided some kind of crime definitely happened. They didn’t know what, but “if everything is legal, you don’t have to transport documents worth this amount in a car,” a spokesman for the Customs Investigations Department said.
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