“Spencer’s image constitutes child pornography and each of the Nirvana defendants robbed our client of his dignity and privacy.”Įlden is asking for a trial by jury and $150,000 from each of the 17 defendants - Including former Nirvana members, Courtney Love, the alum's photographer and record companies Universal Music Group, Geffen, Warner and MCA Music. “This unprecedented album cover is perhaps the first and only time a child’s full-frontal nudity has been used to sell a product,” Elden’s attorneys said, per USA Today. The initial lawsuit was filed in August 2021, claiming that his legal guardians never signed a release “authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him.” 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.” Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind, was the impetus for rock music to resurge on the charts, then dominated by pop stars it replaced Michael Jackson ’s Dangerous for the. He is a huge music connoisseur: when he heard I was the Nirvana baby, he thought that was really cool.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.
I'm 23 now and an artist, and this story gave me an opportunity to work with Shepard Fairey for five years, which was an awesome experience. For instance, he told The Guardian six years ago, "It's always been a positive thing and opened doors for me. I go to a baseball game and think about it: 'Man, everybody at this baseball game has probably seen my little baby penis,' I feel like I got part of my human rights revoked." In other interviews, he has been more positive about the image. It's hard not to get upset when you hear how much money was involved. "It's pretty difficult, you feel like you're famous for nothing.
"I just woke up already being a part of this huge project," he said in a 2016 interview with TIME Magazine. 🍼 Thought for the day?🍼 Spencer Elden alleges he has suffered personal injury as a result of Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover.
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