Nirvana child abuse lawsuit over Nevermind album cover dismissed again
Nirvana wins another lawsuit over iconic album cover
- Spencer Elden's lawsuit against the band Nirvana, alleging child sexual exploitation over the Nevermind album cover, has been dismissed for a second time.
- Elden claimed the iconic 1991 album artwork, featuring him as a naked baby, constituted child sexual abuse imagery.
- Judge Fernando Olguin ruled that the image was not pornographic, likening it to “a family photo of a nude child bathing”.
- Nirvana's lawyer, Bert Deixler, representing surviving members and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's estate, expressed delight that the “meritless case” had ended.
- The band had argued that Elden had “spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed ‘Nirvana Baby'”, undermining his claim.