The man who appeared on the 1991 cover of Nirvana’s breakout album, Nevermind, has just lost his child pornography lawsuit after he refiled his suit against the band when it was dismissed.
Spencer Elden, who is now 31, appeared completely naked as a baby for the 90s grunge band’s album cover.
He initially filed a lawsuit against the band’s surviving members, the late-Kurt Cobain’s estate, numerous record labels, and photographer Kirk Weddle.
Elden claims neither he nor his guardians consented to his image being used, Billboard reports. The plaintiff also claimed that the album cover is in violation of child pornography regulations,
Asserting that the naked image of him in a pool as an infant satisfies the legal definition of a sexualized image of a minor.
However the judge in the lawsuit, US District Judge Fernando Olguin, ruled that the lawsuit was filed too late as the statute of limitations for issues such as this are 10 years – essentially,
