Nirvana’s Nevermind has one of the most iconic album artworks of the 90s — but the naked baby became the focus of a lawsuit.
The baby in question, Spencer Elden, who is now 34, filed claims that the image amounted to child pornography.
Elden, as a fourth-month-old baby, can be seen naked, swimming towards a dollar bill, which dangles on a fishhook.
The case was dismissed for a second time by Judge Fernando Olguin, who said no reasonable jury would find the image pornographic.
Judge Olguin compared the image to ‘a family photo of a nude child bathing’ rather than exploitation.
‘Other than the fact that plaintiff was nude on the album cover,’ he stated that ‘nothing comes close to bringing the image within the ambit of the child pornography statute.’ The lawsuit was filed against Dave G