As an adult for a paying gig — proved he didn’t suffer any damages.” per JOE. Elden, who was fourth months old at the time the image was taken, was photographed by his dad’s friend, Weddle,
after the photographer offered the infant’s parents $200 to plunge him into the water at Pasadena Aquatic Center in California.
Since then, Elden has profited many times off the image, calling himself the ‘Nirvana baby’ – facts that were brought up in the lawsuit by the defendants’ legal team.
People have been left confused after Elden’s opinion on the album cover have changed drastically throughout the past three decades,
Dspite maintaining during the lawsuit that the image has caused him “extreme and permanent emotional distress,” per The Guardian.
In fact, in 2015, Elden told the paper that the cover has “always been a positive thing and opened doors for me.” Then, a year later, he told GQ Australia that he was “p****d off”.
