(DGC Records/John Chapple) As the federal suit awaits its fate and faces questions of its. … Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking. Spencer Elden is featured on the cover of Nirvanas album Nevermind, in the nude as a baby. In a complaint filed in the Los Angeles federal court, Elden alleges 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.'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. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Spencer Elden, now 30, alleges the band violated federal child pornography laws and claims that his parents never signed a release allowing Nirvana to use the photo, CBS Los Angeles reports. The man who, as a baby, was featured on the cover of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album is suing the former band members, the estate of Kurt Cobain and several others over the famous naked photograph.

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