In her original complaint, Spencer Elden accused Nirvana of intentionally and commercially promoting child pornography.
Washington (EFE) .- A judge in California (USA) rejected late Monday the lawsuit filed by Spencer Elden, who as a child appeared on the famous album cover Nevermind (1991) of Nirvana, for an alleged case of child pornography.
Judge Fernando M. Olguín determined in a brief that Elden did not present within the established time its response to the request of the former members and heirs of Nirvana for the case to be dismissed and therefore proceeded to agree with the defense.
However, the judge was open to amend his decision and potentially consider the case if the complainant files a new claim within the established period of ten days from the court decision.
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If in the next ten days Elden does not file this new lawsuit, the case will be dismissed definitively and the plaintiff will not be able to sue again.
In his original complaint, Elden accused Nirvana of intentionally and commercially promoting child pornography. and make use of the striking nature of their image to promote themselves and their music.
The lawsuit also claimed that the defendants benefited and continue to benefit from Elden’s “commercialization of sexual exploitation.”
Among those named in the lawsuit were Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, who together with the legendary and late Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) made up the classic Nirvana line-up.
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The lawsuit also targeted Kirk Weddle, who was the cover photographer for Nevermind; and Courtney Love as heir to the Cobain estate.
Strangely, the complaint also accused Chad Channing, who was a drummer for Nirvana in its early years and who left the band in 1990, that is, before it was released. Nevermind.
Elden was seeking compensation for, the lawsuit said, “The damage it has suffered and will continue to suffer for life.”
The cover of Nevermind It is considered one of the most iconic in rock history and shows a baby diving in a pool and hunting for a dollar bill.
As a teenager and as an adult, Elden has jumped back into the pool to recreate that cover multiple times.
That was what he did, for example, in 2016 when the album’s quarter century was completed. On other occasions, he has shown to the press his distaste for being linked to that image.
Depression, anger and anguish burst the charts thanks to the scream of Nirvana in Nevermind, an album that, with its tormented and wounded rock, carried the style grunge at the height of his revolution.
Led by an atheist martyr and swept away by the hurricane of Smells Like Teen Spirit, perhaps the most important and influential rock song of the nineties, Nirvana flew very high with Nevermind, but his success also led his singer Kurt Cobain into a maze of self-destruction from which he would not emerge alive. (I)
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