Elden said he was referred to managers and lawyers.
There are plenty of places where one can see the full version, but there are some images that are carefully cropped to avoid the naughty. Apparently his parents were paid 200 for it (saw that in other sources). He said that his feelings about the cover began to change “just a few months ago, when I was reaching out to Nirvana to see if they wanted to be part of my art show.” The guy is 30 now and has re-created versions of the cover as a joke, but now hes suing the members of Nirvana for child exploitation. “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice,” Mr. The cover of Nirvanas Nevermind showed a naked baby swimming underwater in a pool, reaching for a dollar bill hanging from a sharp fishing hook. The man who was pictured as a baby on the cover of Nirvanas Nevermind album has. In a different interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. More than 30 million copies of Nevermind have been sold worldwide. “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016.
Over the years, he has expressed ambivalence about the cover. For example, he worked with Shepard Fairey, the artist who was sued by The Associated Press for using an image of Barack Obama for his piece “Hope.” Elden, who declined to comment on his suit, said in a short documentary in 2015 that the album cover had “opened doors” for him. Elden, an artist living in Los Angeles County, has gone to therapy for years to work through how the album cover affected him, said Maggie Mabie, one of his lawyers. 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. Elden suffered “permanent harm” because of his association with the album, including emotional distress and a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.” The lawsuit did not provide details about the losses and said they would be disclosed at trial. “Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday in federal court in California. It is one of the best-selling records of all time, with at least 30 million copies sold worldwide. He claimed that they, along with Geffen Records, which released “Nevermind,” profited from his naked image. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Mr. A California judge on Monday tossed a lawsuit filed against Nirvana by the man who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of their breakthrough album Nevermind.