The lawsuit alleges that Cobain, who died in 1994 at age 27, purposefully chose the image of Elden with his penis visible, reaching for a dollar bill dangling from a fishhook "like a sex worker."
Previous story: Man who appeared on Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album as a baby sues band for child pornography ( Nevermind has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.) “ I go to a baseball game and think about it: ‘Man, everybody at this baseball game has probably seen my little baby penis,’ I feel like I got part of my human rights revoked,” says Elden.Elden asked for a trial by jury and $150,000 from each of the 17 defendants, which include the former members of the band along with Courtney Love, Cobain's estate executor, the album's photographer and designer, and record companies Universal Music Group, Geffen, Warner and MCA Music. “It’s hard not to get upset when you hear how much money was involved,” he says. It’s pretty difficult-you feel like you’re famous for nothing, but you didn’t really do anything but their album.”įrustrated about never receiving any sort of compensation for Nevermind, Elden recently looked into pursuing legal action against Geffen Records, but was unsuccessful. I just woke up already being a part of this huge project. “I was trying to reach out to these people. “I got a little upset for a bit,” he says. Even though Elden has recreated the photo shoot a number of times and has a large tattoo that says “Nevermind” on his chest, he says he hasn’t fully come to terms with being on the album’s cover.
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