The cover image has long been understood to be a comment on capitalism, but, as Variety adds, Elden's attorneys have arrived at a different conclusion: '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. He is seeking at least $150,000 from each defendant as well as compensation for legal fees.Īn outside view of ’In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition’, which marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind in London, 2011.

As Variety, who has obtained a copy of the filing, reports, former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing is also a defendant, despite the fact that he had already been replaced by Grohl by this time.Įlden alleges that he has suffered 'lifelong damages' and that his guardians never signed a release 'authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him.' He is also launching claims of sexual exploitation at the image, suing for distribution of private sexually explicit materials, negligence, and what his team has described as a 'sex trafficking venture.' It also named the labels behind the album's distribution as well as the executors of Cobain's estate and the managers of the estate. On Wednesday, news broke that Elden and his lawyers have filed suit against the estate of former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Cobain's wife at the time of his death, Courtney Love, the grunge outfit's surviving members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well we the image's photographer, Kirk Weddle, and art director, Robert Fisher. Nirvana Gave Charles Barkley a Contact High on SNL.

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