Geffen didn’t want to show Elden’s penis on the cover and tried their hardest to get Nirvana to agree on an alternative cover but getting the band to budge would be easier said than done. Photographer Kirk Weddle was sent out by Fisher to a local pool to shoot the cover art after recruiting his friends baby to take part, for a fee of just $200. They then came to a compromise and went for the swimming baby option but the label was unwilling to shell out $7,500 on a stock image of a swimming baby so, instead, they created their own. The singer then brought this up next time he saw Geffen’s art director Robert Fisher who discovered some stock footage of underwater births which was immediately ruled out by the label bosses. 30 to respond to the motion, but his legal team missed the deadline and so the case was dismissed.Cobain was the mastermind behind the operation and the initial idea came to the late frontman when he was watching a programme about water births. The defendants in the case - which included former band members, as well as Kurt Cobain's estate, photographer Kirk Weddle, Universal Music, Geffen Records, Warner Records and MCA Music - filed a motion to dismiss the case last month.Įlden had until Dec. Now 30, he was seeking $150,000 in damages. Elden was just 4 months old when he was photographed for the cover. Spencer Elden sued former members of the band in August 2021 for child exploitation and pornography, saying the band knowingly distributed a naked photo of him as a baby on the 1991 album cover and profited from it. Nirvana artifacts and exhibits are seen at the opening of 'In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition,' marking the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind album, in 2011 at the Loading Bay Gallery in London.Ī judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed against former band members of Nirvana over their iconic Nevermind album cover.

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