“Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so,” according to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday. It is one of the bestselling records of all time, with at least 30 million copies sold worldwide. He claimed that they, along with Geffen Records, which released “Nevermind”, profited from his naked image. Now, however, Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties.

“It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember,” he said in 2016 in an interview.

In the decades that followed, Elden appeared to celebrate his part in the classic cover, recreating the moment for the album’s 10th, 17th, 20th and 25th anniversaries, though not naked. The picture, taken at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Centre in Pasadena, California, would be used that year for the cover of “Nevermind”, Nirvana’s seminal second album that helped define Generation X and rocketed the Seattle band to international fame.

Spencer Elden was 4 months old when he was photographed by a family friend in 1991 drifting naked in a pool.

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