He said that the photo where he is pictured naked in a swimming pool has caused him ”permanent emotional distress,” per BBC.Īccording to Pitchfork, Elden claimed that Nirvana, photographer Kurt Weddle and a number of record labels “intentionally commercially marketed the child pornography depicting Spencer and leveraged the lascivious nature of his image to promote the ‘Nevermind’ album, the band, and Nirvana’s music, while earning, at a minimum, tens of millions of dollars in the aggregate.” … Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking.Spencer Elden, who was pictured in Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album as a child, claims that the photo constitutes child pornography, filing papers to meet a deadline that can reinstate the lawsuit.
In a complaint filed in the Los Angeles federal court, Elden alleges his "identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor, which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day."Īccording to the suit, the defendants "knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Spencer Elden, now 30, alleges the band violated federal child pornography laws and claims that his parents never signed a release allowing Nirvana to use the photo, CBS Los Angeles reports. The man who, as a baby, was featured on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album is suing the former band members, the estate of Kurt Cobain and several others over the famous naked photograph.
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