![]() ![]() ![]() It is among the best-known album covers in rock. The cover of "Nevermind" - released in 1991 by the Geffen/UMG label - depicts a naked baby swimming underwater, seemingly towards a fish hook with a dollar bill attached. ![]() However, the baby, 30 years old this year, is now suing the band, citing child pornography and sexual exploitation statutes. ![]() Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking."Įlden's parents never signed a release authorizing the use of the photos taken of the four-month-old baby in a Pasadena aquatic center in 1990 and Elden received no compensation, lawyers for the plaintiff allege. Nirvana's Nevermind has one of the most iconic album covers of all time, featuring a naked baby swimming in a pool, following a dollar bill hooked on a fishing line. The cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind is one of the most infamous record sleeves of all time, featuring a nude baby in a swimming pool chasing a dollar on the end of a hook. Messages seeking comment sent to the Universal Music Group and an attorney who represents Nirvana LLC were not immediately answered.Īccording to the suit, the defendants "knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so. Spencer Elden, of Los Angeles, alleges 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," according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court. ![]()
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