Singer Courtney Love was married to Cobain at the time of his death and is named as a defendant in the lawsuit as executor of her late husband’s estate. Mr Elden’s lawyers are seeking $US150,000 ($A206,879) in damages from each of the defendants, plus legal fees. In 2007, he told the Sunday Times he found it “kind of creepy that many people have seen me naked … I feel like the world’s biggest porn star”.īy 2015, he was telling the New York post that “it would be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis”.Īnd the next year, he was even firmer, telling GQ Australia: “I’m pissed off about it, to be honest.” He has recreated it numerous times, including as recently as 2016, and reportedly has the album name tattooed on his chest.īut he has expressed mixed feelings about it in interviews that have grown increasingly negative through the years. Mr Elden has a conflicted relationship with the image. However, the cover was released without the redaction and depicts “commercial child pornography”, it is alleged. The lawsuit says Cobain, who took his own life in 1994 aged 27, was “instrumental” in choosing the album cover.Īfter meeting resistance over the picture, it is claimed, Cobain agreed to strategically place a sticker over the baby’s private parts with the text: “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet paedophile.” The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California on Wednesday (local time), claims the defendants “failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking”.Īs a result, it is alleged, Mr Elden “has suffered and will continue to suffer lifelong damages”. Mr Elden has now sued Mr Weddle, Nirvana’s record label and the individual band members – including the estate of late frontman Kurt Cobain – alleging the picture constitutes child pornography as it shows his genitalia. Nevermind, powered by singles including Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are and Lithium, was a massive critical and commercial success, propelling grunge band Nirvana to global stardom. “Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer – like a sex worker – grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed,” Mr Elden’s lawsuit says.
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