
Spencer Elden, who was photographed as a 4-month-old for the image that would become the cover, filed the lawsuit in federal court in August 2021, claiming that he was the victim of "commercial sexual exploitation." Elden, now 31, asked for $150,000 in damages from 15 defendants, including living former band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and singer Kurt Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, as well as Cobain's estate managers, photographer Kirk Weddle, and art director Robert Fisher.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the band Nirvana filed by a man who claimed that his depiction as a naked infant on the cover of their 1991 album, Nevermind, was "child pornography."
