Nirvana's Nevermind album has sold around 30 million copies worldwide, and the cover art has been named one of the greatest album covers of all time by Billboard magazine and Rolling Stone magazine.Įlden has a tattoo that reads 'Nevermind' across his chest, and he has previously recreated the pool photograph numerous times for the album's anniversaries.

Universal Music Group, Weddle and a publicist for Love did not immediately respond to requests from Reuters for comment. The lawsuit also alleged that a sticker was initially going to be used to cover Elden's genitals, which appear in the photograph shot by Weddle, who was a friend of Elden's father.Įlden also says he has suffered from 'extreme and permanent emotional distress' since the photograph was taken.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80Įlden says his parents never signed a release authorizing the use of the image and that he was never compensated for the photo beyond the $200 his parents were paid for it on the day the photo was taken. The ruling ends a year-long case brought forth by Spencer Elden, who was photographed for the album cover when he was a baby.

Nirvana's Nevermind cover almost looked completely different.

He cannot re-file the case after Olguin’s ruling, though he will be submitting an appeal, per his legal team. Elden then re-filed the suit in January 2022. The suit was later thrown out after Elden missed the deadline to respond to the defendants’ motion to dismiss. Elden first filed suit against Nirvana in 2021 for child sexual exploitation. Spencer Elden, now 30, claims he is the naked baby pictured in a swimming pool on the 1991 album artwork and that the image is child based sexual abuse. US District Judge Fernando Olguin, who dismissed the case with prejudice, ruled that the case was filed well past the statute of limitations (10 years). Elden has claimed that the album cover, which was taken when he was four months old by a family friend, caused him “permanent harm” as well as a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.” The suit named several record labels, drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain’s estate, and photographer Kirk Weddle. Spencer Elden, now age 31, claimed in the lawsuit that the image amounted to child pornography.

A Los Angeles judge has thrown out the lawsuit from the person who appeared naked on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind as a baby.

Boy from nirvana nevermind cover