{"id":329991,"date":"2021-08-25T07:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nevermind-cover-baby-spencer-eldon-sues-nirvana-over-child-pornography\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:35:22","slug":"nevermind-cover-baby-spencer-eldon-sues-nirvana-over-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nevermind-cover-baby-spencer-eldon-sues-nirvana-over-child-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Nevermind&#8217; cover baby Spencer Eldon sues Nirvana over &#8216;child pornography&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Nevermind&#8217; cover baby Spencer Eldon sues Nirvana over &#8216;child pornography&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The naked baby photographed on Nirvana\u2019s breakthrough album \u201cNevermind\u201d is now accusing the band of being child pornographers, claiming they told him to \u201cCome As You Are\u201d without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Eldon, now 30, filed a lawsuit against Kurt Cobain\u2019s estate and the band\u2019s surviving members, saying the grunge pioneers violated federal child pornography statutes and sexually exploited him.<\/p>\n<p>Eldon also said he has suffered \u201clifelong damage\u201d from having his naked body plastered on the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-diamond selling album, and claims neither he nor his guardians consented to the naked photoshoot, according to the federal suit.<\/p>\n<p>The band, photographer, and record labels \u201cintentionally marketed Spencer\u2019s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense,\u201d the suit alleges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-591.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Naked baby from Nirvana album\" class=\"wp-image-19236789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-591.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-591.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-591.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The naked baby on the cover of Nirvana\u2019s \u201cNevermind\u201d album is suing the band for child pornography.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo Copyright John Ch<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>le \/ w<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The plaintiff, who was four months old at the time of the 1991 underwater photoshoot, also claims he was forced to engage in \u201ccommercial sex acts,\u201d and that the band went back on an alleged promise to conceal his genitals on the album cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe permanent harm he has proximately suffered includes but is not limited to extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations, interference with his normal development and educational progress, lifelong loss of income earning capacity, loss of past and future wages, past and future expenses for medical and psychological treatment, loss of enjoyment of life, and other losses to be described and proven at trial of this matter,\u201d the document read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-590.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"American rock group Nirvana\" class=\"wp-image-19236786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-590.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-590.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-590.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>American rock group Nirvana is being sued by the baby posted on their \u201cNevermind\u201d album cover.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2016, 25-year-old Eldon recreated the cover fully clothed to pay homage to the hit record, which blasted indie rock to the mainstream with hits like \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d and \u201cLithium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to the photographer, \u2018Let\u2019s do it naked.\u2019 But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts,\u201d Elden said of the shoot at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anniversary means something to me. It\u2019s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was 4 months old and it became this really iconic image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The infant\u2019s family was only paid $200 for the 15-second plunge in the pool, which only happened because Elden\u2019s dad was a friend of the photographer, according to a 2008 NPR report.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-592.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Spencer Elden\" class=\"wp-image-19236810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-592.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-592.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-592.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Spencer Elden, who re-created his underwater pose, claims he was forced to engage in \u201ccommercial sex acts.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Splash <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even though he seemed excited about the reenactment in 2016, days earlier the LA-based artist told Australia GQ he wished the band had stayed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pissed off about it, to be honest \u2026 I\u2019ve been going through it my whole life. But recently I\u2019ve been thinking, \u2018What if I wasn\u2019t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?\u2019 I didn\u2019t really have a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eldon\u2019s suit seeks damages and an injunction to seek the band from profiting from the hit album.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Spencer Eldon, now 30, filed a lawsuit against Kurt Cobain\u2019s estate and the band\u2019s surviving members,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nirvana-baby-lawsuit-589-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[114815,79408,94316,79243,70446,109433,74479],"class_list":["post-329991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-25-21","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-courtney-love","tag-dave-grohl","tag-lawsuits","tag-nirvana","tag-rock-and-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}