The lawsuit further claims that the cover makes Spencer Elden resemble “a sex worker grabbing for a dollar bill”. Elden’s parents $200 for the picture, which was later altered to show the baby chasing a dollar bill, dangling from a fishhook.The lawsuit also mentions that Spencer was not paid a penny to appear on the cover and that his parents never signed a release form for the portrait. Cobain envisioned the album cover showing a baby underwater. Elden, who was then four months old, was picked from among dozens of pictures of babies by the photographer Kirk Weddle. He had been seeking $150,000 from each of the 15 people and companies named in the complaint. Elden, an artist living in Los Angeles County, has gone to therapy for years to work through how the album cover affected him, his lawyers have said, arguing that his privacy had been invaded, according to court records. Elden’s lawyers to file a second amended complaint to address “the alleged defects” in the defendants’ motion to dismiss.īut the dismissal on Friday appeared to end the legal back-and-forth. Elden’s lawyers had missed a deadline to respond to a motion for dismissal by the lawyers for Nirvana. The dismissal came after Judge Olguin dismissed the case in January for another reason: Mr. Elden’s lawyers, did not respond to an email seeking comment on Sunday. Deixler, a lawyer for the defendants, said in a statement that they were “pleased this meritless case has been brought to a swift conclusion.”

Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. District Court for the Central District of California against the estate of Kurt Cobain the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic and Mr. Elden had learned about the album cover more than 10 years ago, he had waited too long to file his lawsuit, making his claims untimely.

Olguin, wrote in his eight-page ruling that because Mr. The man, Spencer Elden, 31, accused Nirvana in his complaint of engaging in child pornography after it used a photo of him for the cover of “Nevermind,” the 1991 album that catapulted the Seattle grunge rock band to international fame. A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who, as a baby, had graced the cover of Nirvana’s seminal album, “Nevermind,” and argued 30 years later that the iconic photo of him drifting naked in a pool had been a form of sexual exploitation.

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