

'Commercial sexual acts'īut 30 years after the album's release, Elden's lawyers in August 2021 filed a lawsuit alleging that the "Nevermind" image was procured after Elden "was forced to engage in commercial sexual acts while under the age of 18 years old."


When the boy, Spencer Elden, was snapped naked in the water and wound up front-and-center on the band's groundbreaking "Nevermind" album, his likeness became the epoch-defining image of grunge rock. In 1991, photographer Kirk Weddle asked a friend to bring his four-month-old baby to a photo shoot at a swimming pool for the indie band Nirvana.
