In the legal documents, Elden claims that his “true 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.” The 30-year-old also alleges that he has suffered a number of “lifelong damages” as a result of the 1991 album artwork, including “extreme and permanent emotional distress,” “interference with his normal development and educational progress,” and “medical and psychological treatment.” Now, Elden is asking for $150,000 in damages from each of the 15 defendants. That vision was a bit too graphic, so we went with the swimming baby instead,” Fisher said. “ thought the image would make a cool cover. The cover’s art director, Robert Fisher, previously said that Kurt Cobain drew inspiration for the cover art after watching a documentary about babies born underwater. Elsewhere, the image has been interpreted as an artistic statement on capitalism. Lewis, claims that the image crosses a threshold into pornographic imagery. While nonsexualized images of infants are generally not considered to be child porn under US law, Elden’s lawyer, Robert Y. The lawsuit also claims that Nirvana “intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense.” BuzzFeed News has reached out to a representative for Nirvana for comment. “The images exposed Spencer's intimate body part and lasciviously displayed Spencer's genitals from the time he was an infant to the present day,” attorneys for Elden allege in legal documents filed in California this week. In it, he claims the nude image of him, which has since become one of the most globally recognizable album covers in history, constitutes child pornography. On Tuesday, Elden filed a lawsuit that has been obtained by Variety. The album artwork depicts 4-month-old Elden underwater in a swimming pool with his arms reaching out, grasping for a dollar bill that is being dangled in front of him from a fishing line.
Now, 30 years later, he is suing the band, alleging that he was “sexually exploited” as a minor. Ironically, he yearns for the era that gave Kurt Cobain, the lead singer for Nirvana, so much angst.Spencer Elden was an infant when he was photographed naked by a family friend for the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album cover. These days, his peers are too stuck on the Internet and video games. Life in general isn't quite as "cool" as it was when he jumped naked in the pool in the early '90s, though, he says. 'Cause I guess they have like a floating thing where people can like walk on me and stuff. "My friend is all like, 'Hey I saw you today.' And I'm like, 'Dude, I was working all day.' And he's like, 'No, I went to Geffen Records, and you're on the floor and you're floating and I stepped on your face. The other day, his friends spotted a giant Nevermind photo on the floor of a record store in Hollywood. As Elden learned to walk, talk and sing - his pale baby arms stretched across millions of grungy fans' walls his private parts stood magnified across billboards and floors. Over the coming years, 26 million albums were sold. Two months later, Geffen Records sent 1-year-old Spencer Elden a platinum album and a teddy bear. Three months later, while driving down Sunset Blvd., the Elden family spotted a 9-foot-by-9-foot Spencer floating across Tower Records' wall. Spencer Elden, now 17, says he thinks it would have been cooler to have been a teen in the early '90s. "I was like, 'What's up?' And he's like, 'Well, I'm shooting kids all this week, why don't you meet me at the Rose Bowl, throw your kid in the drink?' And we just had a big party at the pool, and no one had any idea what was going on!" " calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'" Rick recounts. Elden's naked participation in this important moment in music history was rather accidental Kirk Weddle, the photographer working on the cover, was simply a friend of Spencer's dad, Rick. Nevermind is often credited with changing the face of rock. I'm just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I'm here."
"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis," he says from his home in Los Angeles. Nearly 17 years later, amid hating school and playing water polo, Elden is still struggling to make sense of his (very) public image. Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say "embarrassing." That's the story of Spencer Elden, whom you may know as the little baby floating toward a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album, Nevermind. Spencer Elden on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind.
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