who owns jerry garcia's wolf guitar

Jerry Garcia’s famed “Wolf” guitar is currently owned by Brian Halligan, the CEO of HubSpot and a longtime Deadhead.

Quick Scoop: Who Owns Wolf Now?

After Jerry’s death and a legal battle over his instruments, luthier Doug Irwin ultimately received Wolf and later sold it at auction in 2002 to philanthropist Daniel Pritzker. Pritzker held the guitar for about 15 years before putting it back up for auction in 2017 to raise money for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

At that 2017 charity auction in Brooklyn, Wolf sold for about 1.9 million dollars (roughly 1.6 million plus buyer’s premium), and the winning bidder was Brian Halligan, HubSpot’s CEO. An anonymous donor matched the bid so the event raised over 3 million dollars for the SPLC, making Wolf one of the most expensive guitars ever sold.

Where Is Wolf Now?

Since 2017, Halligan has been known as the owner of Wolf and has been based in the Boston/Cambridge area. Rather than locking it away, he has occasionally allowed local and touring musicians to play the guitar, giving Wolf a kind of “second life” onstage decades after Garcia’s last performances with it.

In short: if you’re asking “who owns Jerry Garcia’s Wolf guitar” today, the widely reported and latest public info points to Brian Halligan as the current owner.

TL;DR: Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf” guitar was awarded to luthier Doug Irwin, sold to Daniel Pritzker in 2002, and then sold again in 2017 to HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan, who is the present known owner and has lent it out for performances while supporting charity.

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