Where were you, Gen Xers and elder millennials, when Courtney Love awkwardly crashed Madonna ‘s live interview with Kurt Loder after the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards ? Eduardo Braniff was literally right there. A mid-level MTV executive at the time, Braniff was the designated talent escort for Love and her Hole bandmates for the 11th annual VMAs, held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall 30 years ago, on Sept. 7, 1995.

Braniff says he was “randomly” assigned to escort the band during rehearsals and night-of-show. And while colleagues knew he was deft at handling “shall-we-say ‘dynamic’ talent,” none could predict that Love would make pop culture history that night: After pelting Madonna and Loder with compacts from her purse, she inserted herself into their chat, which was being

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