It sounds like a joke: Courtney Love, Britney Spears’ ex-manager and a 13 Reasons Why actor all walk into a bar, where they’ve been accused of conspiring to kidnap, assault and attempt murder. But in the simulation break that is 2018, that’s where we’re at.

Last week, news first broke that Frances Bean Cobain’s ex-husband Isaiah Silva filed a civil suit against Love and co., alleging the above. It all revolves around Silva’s hotly contested ownership of the guitar Kurt Cobain played at Nirvana’s iconic 1993 MTV Unplugged appearance, which is believed to be worth millions.

What follows is an alleged triple threat: it’s convoluting, confusing and clickbaity. Armed with the info of Silva’s 300 page lawsuit, as obtained by Spin, we’re going to try to simplify and condense everything. Let’s dive in.

Wait, what?

In mid-May, a court awarded Kurt Cobain’s guitar to Silva at the end of a two-year divorce settlement. Silva argued that it had been given to him as an engagement gift in 2014 by his then fiancée. Frances Bean Cobain disagreed — as did Love.

Shortly after, Silva filed a 300 page civil suit against a number of people, including Love, 13 Reasons Why actor Ross Butler, and their shared manager, Sam Lutfi — most well-known for being the manager that Britney Spears twice filed restraining orders against, alleging that he had drugged her in 2007.

Silva alleged that all three were involved in a conspiracy to have him killed. According to Silva, on June 3, 2016 Lutfi, Butler, and another man, Yan Yukhtman, broke into his house to try and steal the guitar.

After breaking in, they allegedly groped and beat Silva and stole his phone, before driving away with him — Silva believes that he would have been murdered if not for a visiting friend who noticed he was missing and called 911.

The police soon stopped the vehicle, though no arrests were made.

At the time, Silva told police it had been a prank which had gone too far. Now, he alleges he was threatened by Lutfi that Lutfi, Love and Frances Bean “owned the judicial system, the LAPD, and the media”.

He also alleges that if the police hadn’t intercepted, he would’ve been murdered and have his death framed as a suicide. According to Silva, at the time, his iMessage had been “hacked” to look as though he had sent several suicidal comments to a friend, among other things.

“Lutfi, Love, and their coconspirators went to great lengths to create the impression that Cobain’s soon to be ex-husband (Silva) was depressed, drug addicted, on the brink of committing suicide, and had recently inquired about where to obtain a firearm,” the lawsuit says.

But wait, there’s more

Silva also loosely connects his own alleged framed suicide to the ever-persistent conspiracy regarding Love murdering Kurt Cobain.

In the suit, he claims that Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, believes this theory, citing a conversation in which O’Connor allegedly told him that after Cobain’s death, Love incinerated would-be divorce papers from Cobain. She also allegedly urged Silva to watch Soaked In Bleach, a widely-panned film dramatisation of Cobain’s death which runs with the conspiracy.

In addition, Silva is alleging that Lutfi also supplied Frances Bean Cobain with “narcotics and illicit benzodiazepines”, resulting in Cobain almost overdosing in 2014.

Then there’s an entirely seperate-but-related suit against Love and Lufti from Silva’s first ex-wife, Jessica Sullivan. She is suing for stalking and emotional distress, alleging the pair harassed her so she would help convince Silva to return the guitar.

Sullivan was present in the background of the guitar dispute, as she and Silva share custody of their child (predating his marriage with Cobain). In her own suit, she alleges that Love and Lutfi reached out to her at Cobain and Silva’s first cracks in their relationship, trying to bribe her into coaxing Silva to part with the guitar.

Sullivan’s suit says she declined. Afterwards, Lufti allegedly began threatening her through calls and texts her up to 40 times a day, as well as surveilling her home.

Now what?

Lutfi, Butler and Love are yet to respond to either Sullivan or Silva’s claims. While the courts recently granted Silva the rights to own the guitar, it’s clear that the battle around it will continue.