30 to respond to the motion, but his legal team missed the deadline and so the case was dismissed. The cover photo of the album was very interesting. The defendants in the case - which included former band members, as well as Kurt Cobain's estate, photographer Kirk Weddle, Universal Music, Geffen Records, Warner Records and MCA Music - filed a motion to dismiss the case last month.Įlden had until Dec. American grunge band Nirvana’s most popular album, Nevermind, was released on September 24, 1991. As previously reported, Elden filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in the Central District of California in August on charges of child pornography. The naked baby featured on the cover is Spencer Elden who is now 30 years old. Dave Grohl has some thoughts on the potential of changing the cover to Nirvana’s Nevermind in light of a recent lawsuit filed by Spencer Elden, who famously appeared on the album’s cover as a baby.
Now 30, he was seeking $150,000 in damages. Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind album cover has been thrust back into the spotlight almost 30 years after it was released.
Elden was just 4 months old when he was photographed for the cover. The man who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s smash, breakthrough album should have said Nevermind to the idea of filing a child-porn lawsuit over its iconic cover, some. Spencer Elden sued former members of the band in August 2021 for child exploitation and pornography, saying the band knowingly distributed a naked photo of him as a baby on the 1991 album cover and profited from it.
Nirvana artifacts and exhibits are seen at the opening of "In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition," marking the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind album, in 2011 at the Loading Bay Gallery in London.Ī judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed against former band members of Nirvana over their iconic Nevermind album cover.
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