A lawsuit for alleged child sexual exploitation brought by a Los Angeles man pictured as a naked infant over 30 years ago on the cover of the groundbreaking Nirvana album “Nevermind” has been dismissed, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.

Spencer Elden sought millions of dollars in personal injury damages from the now-defunct group’s company, various record companies and art directors on the grounds that he was a victim of child pornography when, as a 4-month-old baby, he was photographed naked in a pool for the cover of the multimillion-selling 1991 album. He filed suit almost 30 years after the photo was taken.

In his ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, finding that, based on the context of the photo’s creat

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