Here’s why the baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover filed a case now

Nirvana band is trending on the internet but for the wrong reasons. For the unversed, Spencer Elden, who featured on the band’s album cover photo, when he was a kid has sued them. He was 4 months old when he was photographed by a family friend in 1991 swimming naked in a pool. Spencer’s childhood picture was taken at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena, California and was the cover of “Nevermind,” Nirvana’s seminal second album that led the Seattle band to international fame. For several years, Elden celebrated the classic cover by recreating the moment for the album’s anniversaries, though not naked. In an interview with The New York Post, he had said, “It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember.”

But now, Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love among others. He claimed that they and Geffen Records profited from his naked image.

As per the lawsuit, “Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so.” He said that he suffered “permanent harm” because of his association with the album, including emotional distress and a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.”.

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Speaking of Elden, he is an artist living in Los Angeles County. He underwent therapy for years as the album cover affected him. His lawyer said that the cover is a constant reminder that he has no privacy.

As per the lawsuit, Elden is seeking $150,000 from each of the 15 people and companies named in the complaint. Apparently, back then Elder’s parents were paid 200 dollars for the picture and it was altered to show Elden chasing a dollar. Spencer Elden, who was featured in the 2015 documentary said that the cover had “opened doors” for him. For instance, that helped him to get work with Shepard Fairey,

“It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016. In another interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. He told GQ Australia, “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice.”

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