

Getty ImagesĮlden alleged last year that the photo caused him “lifelong damage,” though he has the album title tattooed across his chest and recreated the famous picture in 2016 to pay homage to the seminal record on its 25th anniversary. FilmMagic, Inc Nirvana poses backstage at Nakano Sunplaza in December 1992.

Nirvana’s album “Nevermind” was the band’s second studio album. US District Judge Fernando Olguin of Los Angeles said Elden had waited far too long to take legal action against the legendary grunge rockers in a suit that named several record labels, drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain’s estate and photographer Kirk Weddle.Įlden had filed three versions of the suit, and Olguin’s dismissal prevented him from filing a fourth. Spencer Elden will not have his revenge on Nirvana.Ī lawsuit from the now-adult infant who graced the cover of the band’s 1991 landmark album “Nevermind” was tossed out Friday - as a federal judge said never mind to claims the grunge rockers engaged in child porn.Įlden, 31, had argued that the shot of him in the nude swimming towards a dollar bill on a fish hook amounted to child porn.

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