The American who appeared as a baby on the album cover of Nirvana ‘Nevermind’, one of the most famous album covers of all time, has filed a lawsuit against the now defunct grunge icon band for sexual exploitation and child pronography, according to a claim.
Spencer Elden He was photographed in 1991, when he was four months old, naked in a swimming pool and reaching for a dollar bill hooked on a hook. But as it is now alleged, neither Elden nor his legal guardians “signed a document authorizing the use of photographs of Spencer or his image, and of course not for the commercial exploitation of child pornography images of you», The lawsuit maintains.
Furthermore, the plaintiff also claimed that Elden had never received any compensation for appearing in that picture and asked for $ 150,000 in damages from each of the 15 defendants, including the still-living former members of the gang, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as on the goods of the late singer Kurt Cobain and the photographer Kirk Weddle.
According to the lawsuit filed in California, the album cover “Exposed the intimate part of Spencer’s body and lasciviously displayed Spencer’s genitalia from the time he was a baby to this day. ” Elden was considered to have suffered “Extreme and permanent emotional distress”, as well as “lifetime loss of ability to generate income”, among other consequences.
The album, one of the most famous of the 1990s, sold 30 million copies hand in hand with popular songs like ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ that became an icon of American popular culture.
Spencer Elden recreates the image that she starred in when she was 4 months old and that became an icon of an entire social and musical movement. JOHN CHAPPLE.
Representatives for Nirvana or the members’ labels have yet to react to the lawsuit. Elden reproduced the album cover several times, including for his 25th birthday. Weddle, the photographer for the original image, was a friend of his father, the family told NPR public radio in 2008.
They organized a garden party by the pool during which the baby was photographed for the then unknown band’s album. His parents received $ 200 for the image.
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