“There is no doubt that Elden’s claims will fail on the merits. Spencer Eldens lawsuit accused the band and others of child pornography and child sexual. But the legal battle may not be done quite yet.
In 1991, when he was four months old, Elden was photographed naked in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a fish hook, an image that has become one of the most iconic covers of all time. WASHINGTON A judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought by the man who was photographed as a baby, naked, swimming toward a 1 bill on a fish hook on the iconic 1991 Nirvana 'Nevermind' album cover. “He has recreated the photograph for a fee many times the title of the album Nevermind has been tattooed on his chest has appeared on a talk show with a flesh-colored jumpsuit who parodies himself has autographed copies of the album cover for sale on eBay, and he has used the connection to try to pick up women,” the statement read. Spencer Elden, who featured on Nirvana's Nevermind album cover as a baby, has refiled a new lawsuit accusing the band of sexual exploitation. LOS ANGELES - A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album is suing the band. They went on to cite occasions where Elden had seemingly embraced being featured on the album art, claiming that he’d “spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed ‘Nirvana Baby’”. Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. 30-year-old Spencer Elden filed a complaint at Los Angeles federal court last August claiming that the 1991 image in a swimming pool chasing a dollar bill is child sexual exploitation and violates federal child pornography statutes. The suit would only apply within 10 years of Elden finding out he was the baby on the cover art, with representatives for Nirvana rejecting the idea that he had only discovered this in the last decade. A judge in California has dismissed ‘Nevermind’ baby Spencer Elden’s child exploitation lawsuit against Nirvana. In a statement issued last month in response to the original complaint, representatives for Nirvana refuted the claims, saying the lawsuit was “not serious” and was beyond the statute of limitations.
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