Spencer Elden, the adult who was the baby depicted swimming naked on the album's cover, has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that the photo violated various federal child pornography laws. … Spencer’s image constitutes child pornography and each of the Nirvana Defendants robbed our client of his dignity and privacy.” In the suit, Elden accused Cobain of utilizing “commercial child pornography” by putting the image on the cover of Nevermind.Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind is widely credited with bringing alternative and grunge rock into the mainstream, but now it's in the news for another reason. Filed on Wednesday, the new version of the lawsuit contains additional “images and materials which reveal the Nevermind creators’ deliberate choices to commercialize and exploit the sexually explicit photo lasciviously depicting Sepncer’s genitals.”Īccording to Elden’s attorneys, “This unprecedented album cover is perhaps the first and only time a child’s full-frontal nudity has been used to sell a product. 13 to file their “one last opportunity” to sue Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Chad Channing, and the late Kurt Cobain.
The legal team for Elden was given until Thursday, Jan. Per USA Today, Elden has once again asserted the image “constitutes child pornography,” and has reopened the now amended lawsuit. 30-year-old Spencer Elden, who is the child featured in the art, initially filed his lawsuit in August, 2021 before it was dismissed this month for missing a deadline. In December, the surviving members of Nirvana asked the court to dismiss the sexual exploitation suit over the 1991 album cover, which featured a naked baby swimming after a dollar. After his case was dismissed by a California judge earlier this month, the man who appeared on Nirvana’s Nevermind album art as a baby has refiled his child pornography lawsuit.
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