Gossip website TMZ has reported that chart-topping Australian rapper Iggy Azalea has made a sex tape and photos from the alleged film are already being circulated on the internet and via social media.
But Azalea has come out swinging against the claims and photos. Azalea tweeted an angry response on Friday morning.
TMZ is reporting the former Mullumbimby MC made an explicit movie with her boyfriend and that it’s already attracted offers from a porn baron who claims to have watched a copy.
The person in the tape is alleged to be her current beau, LA Lakers basketball star Nick Young.
Vivid Entertainment owner Steven Hirsch told TMZ he has seen it, is sure it is 24-year-old Azalea and has approached her, offering a six-figure sum to licence its sale.
I dont have a sex tape but for the record…
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) September 11, 2014
Anyone who releases or attempts to make profit off someone else's intimate moments against their will is a sex offender.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) September 11, 2014
& it honestly makes me sick to see the media encourage any other attitude towards those sorts of people, we should want to protect our women
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) September 11, 2014
Hirsch claims sales would top the most famous sex tape of all-time, Kim Kardashian’s. The tape arguably sealed a television career for the woman who is currently in Australia with her husband, rapper Kanye West. Sex tapes have become a de rigeur celebrity accessory since 2000.
The most famous examples involved Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and wrestler Hulk Hogan.
But the tone of reporting around unauthorised publication of naked images of celebrities – such as Jennifer Lawrence – changed last week when hundreds of photos of famous women were leaked onto the internet; it is now viewed as a criminal act and the people responsible have either apologised or been publicly shamed.
The authorised sale of Azalea’s alleged sex tape is highly unlikely to happen, as any such move would be a career killer for a mainstream pop star, certainly in the long-term.
On top of that, TMZ says Azalea’s camp has denied it’s her in the movie. But the mere rumour of a sex tape could be a very valuable thing indeed for Azalea, keeping her name – and face – in the headlines and high up in Google search results for months and years to come.
Her hit Fancy was the so-called ‘song of the summer’ in the US, an official title bestowed by the official American charts company Billboard. She has had three top 10 singles – the others being Problem (with Ariana Grande) and Black Widow (with Rita Ora). Her album The New Classic reached No.3 in the US charts and No.2 in Australia.
Azalea is everywhere in the US at the moment. The sex tape rumours are attracting attention away from decidedly less glamorous photos of Azalea from high school in Mullumbimby when she was the much more ordinary Amethyst Kelly.
