“This understandably causes him extreme ongoing psychic or emotional injury for which he is entitled to damages and an injunction,” read the appeal. One of Cobain’s school classmates discovered him drawing pornography as a young child.”Įlden said that the defendants were commercially exploiting the frontal nude image of him as an infant to sell millions of albums worldwide. They added, “Cobain’s preoccupation with pornographic imagery started at a very early age. Elden’s parents were compensated $200 for the shoot at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena, California, and allegedly never signed paperwork allowing the use of the image. 23, 2021, the photograph left him with “extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations.”Īt the time of the Nevermind photo shoot, Elden’s father, Rick, was friends with Weddle, who initially informed his parents about the shoot. In the initial lawsuit, which he filed on Aug.

30, 2021 deadline to file an opposition motion against the band’s legal request to dismiss the case in December.Īt the age of four months old, Elden appeared nude in a pool with his genitalia visible, swimming toward a dollar bill on a fish hook for the 1991 album cover. 2022 after lawyers for Elden missed the Dec. Elden, 31, is still seeking financial damages from the surviving band members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, along with late singer Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, Universal Music Group, and photographer Kirk Weddle, and appealed the dismissal of the lawsuit with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California.

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