The North American Spencer Elden is 30 years old and is known for being the recognized baby of the emblematic Nirvana album. Nevermind. Three decades after that photo, the now-adult has decided to sue the gang for child pornography.
Naked and floating in the water, behind a dollar bill, the little boy smiles submerged. An iconic image in the history of music, and that is part of the DNA of the renowned band.
Today, Elden is an artist living in Los Angeles. And he has decided to sue musicians Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, who together with Kurt Cobain formed one of the most iconic rock-grunge bands of the 90s. The drummer, Chad Channing, was also sued, even though he had left the band before. of the emission of that disc. As well as Kirk Weddle, the cover photographer for Nevermind. And even Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow, as heir to the musician’s estate.
The defendants promoted Spencer’s child pornography intentionally and commercially and used the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at Spencer’s expense, the complaint filed in court was detailed, according to the media. Variety.
Elden asks to be compensated for the damages that he has suffered and will continue to suffer for life, derived from his participation in the famous and now controversial cover.
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A lawsuit that comes in strange circumstances. This, because in 2016, for the 25 years of the record work, Elden posed again recreating the image. And the protagonist revealed at the time to the New York Post that he wanted to do it without clothes. I said to the photographer, ‘Let’s do it naked.’ But he thought it would be weird, ”Spencer commented. The recreation of the cover went viral on social networks.
In addition, he confessed: The anniversary means something to me. It’s weird because I did this for five minutes when I was four months old, and it became a really iconic image.