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Three decades later, the baby featured on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind album has filed a lawsuit against the band. Spencer Elden, now 30 years old, appeared on the 1991 album cover as an infant underwater facing a dollar bill on a fishhook. Now alleging that the photo constitutes child pornography, Elden is suing for damages with the argument that he was sexually exploited by Nirvana for the sake of promoting their music.

"Defendants intentionally commercially marketed Spencer's child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense," the lawsuit reads. "Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews."

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The baby — now man — who appears on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind has filed a lawsuit against the band and others involved in the photograph, claiming the image constitutes child pornography.

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Spencer Elden, now 30, claimed in a suit that the defendants involved “knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography,” that they “failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation,” that they’ve continued “to benefit from their participation in Spencer’s commercial sexual exploitation,...