Spencer Elden, a 30-year-man who was once the baby noticed on the Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover in 1991, has been dragged through fans. Elder is suing Nirvana and the estate of Kurt Cobain for "trafficking" his symbol for profit, and causing "lifelong damages."
Cobain used to be found useless at his home in Seattle in 1994. Elden said in court docs reviewed through CBSLA, that his "identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day.
In the suit filed in a Los Angeles federal court, Elden said his parents never gave their release in writing for the photos, and were not paid. The image was snapped in 1990 at the Pasadena aquatic center when the Los Angeles native was four-months-old. The famous album cover, which late lead singer Kurt Cobain picked out, shows a naked baby swimming underwater toward a dollar bill on a string.
Elden's prison workforce mentioned within the swimsuit that "to be certain that the album quilt would cause a visceral sexual response from the viewer, (photographer Kirk) Weddle activated Spencer’s 'gag reflex' earlier than throwing him underwater in poses highlighting and emphasizing Spencer’s exposed genitals."
The suit goes on to state: "as an very important element of a document promotion scheme regularly utilized within the song business to get attention, in which album covers posed kids in a sexually provocative approach to achieve notoriety, force gross sales, and garner media attention, and significant reviews."
According to Elden, the 90's grunge band had promised that a sticker would be placed on the area of his genitals, but it never occurred. Elden is asking for $150,000 from each of 17 defendants named in the suit - much to the disgust of Nirvana fans.
"Took him 30 years to determine this out ? Money grab," one person wrote online. "Umm, sue your oldsters dude. They signed on your behalf," a second added. "Tell me you might be broke and a loser with out telling me you are broke and a loser," a third commented.
"This man has achieved many interviews up to now of the way awesome it was once to be the baby on the album. he now looks and seems like a drug addict that can't hold a task and what is easy cash. This man is a disgrace. Any particular person would of liked to be the baby on one of the iconic album covers," a fan wrote online.
"Good god. Get a job loser. The lawyers who take those cases must be disbarred," a comment read.
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