A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against former band members of Nirvana by the 30-year-old man who appeared as a baby on their iconic Nevermind album cover. Spencer Elden sued former members of the band in August 2021 for child exploitation and pornography, accusing them of having “intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense.” Elden was just 4 months old when he was photographed for the cover, naked and underwater with a dollar on a fishhook in front of him. “Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews,” the lawsuit reads. Elden’s lawsuit named living Nirvana members including drummer Dave Grohl and …
California Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed Against Nirvana by Baby Who Appeared on ‘Nevermind’ Album Cover
January 5, 2022
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