The baby on Nirvana's Nevermind album cover grew up and is now suing over child pornography!

Los Angeles, California – Spencer Elden is the star of one of the most iconic album covers of all time. But the man who appeared on Nirvana's Nevermind cover as a baby is now accusing the band of profiting off "child pornography."

Dave Grohl (l.), Kurt Cobain (c.) and Krist Novoselic (r.) from Nirvana give an interview on the European release of their album, Nevermind, in London, UK on August 20, 1991.
Dave Grohl (l.), Kurt Cobain (c.) and Krist Novoselic (r.) from Nirvana give an interview on the European release of their album, Nevermind, in London, UK on August 20, 1991.  © IMAGO / Future Image

The 1991 record features baby Spencer naked in a pool, reaching for a dollar bill. A black bar covers his private parts.

Now that he's grown up, the 30-year-old Elden has beef with Nirvana over their use of his image, The Hill reported.

He filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in an LA court alleging the band "knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting [Elden], and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so."

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He said the album cover makes him look "like a sex worker," as he is "grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed."

Elden claims he has suffered "lifelong damages" of both a physical and emotional nature as a result.

He is asking for $150,000 plus legal fees from each defendant, including the surviving band members, the estate of the late Kurt Cobain, as well the album photographer and designer.

Elden has had a complicated relationship with the iconic image. He has appeared in several photoshoots reproducing it, but also previously said in a Sunday Times interview that it made him feel "like the world’s biggest porn star."

Cover photo: IMAGO / Future Image

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