“The point was not just to create a menacing image but to cross the line and they did so in a way that exposed Spencer so that they could profit off of it.” “They were trying to create controversy because controversy sells,” Ms. Elden’s parents $200 for the picture, which was later altered to show the baby chasing a dollar, dangling from a fishhook. Cobain envisioned showing a baby underwater. Weddle photographed for the album cover, which Mr. Elden was picked from among dozens of pictures of babies Mr. “It's a constant reminder that he has no privacy. “He hasn’t met anyone who hasn’t seen his genitalia,” she said. Elden, an artist living in Los Angeles County, has gone to therapy for years to work through how the album cover affected him, said Maggie Mabie, one of his lawyers. Elden suffered “permanent harm” because of his association with the album, including emotional distress and a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.” The lawsuit did not provide details about the losses and said they would be disclosed at trial. “Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday in federal court in California. It is one of the best-selling records of all time, with at least 30 million copies sold worldwide.
He claimed that they, along with Geffen Records, which released “Nevermind,” profited from his naked image. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Mr.
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