Being a celebrity isn't always a pleasant experience. One issue that arises is how to deal with acquaintances who predate the fame. For Iggy Azalea, that means battling a former boyfriend who has brought forward her unreleased music and word of a purported sex tape. She's now choosing to combat this nightmare situation by unleashing legal fury on him.
The story begins in March 2008 when the pop superstar born Amethyst Kelly was a 17-year-old Australian living at a hotel in Houston, Texas. According to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday (Sept. 17) in California federal court, she was working on her music at the time when she met an older man named Maurice Williams (a.k.a. rapper Jefe Wine), who held himself out to be a partner in an oil company. He soon put Azalea up in an apartment, says the complaint. What Azalea didn't know then, she says, was that Williams was already married with children.
Williams followed Azalea when she moved to Atlanta in 2009, according to the lawsuit, and he moved into her house. Around that time, "Williams downloaded the entire contents of Azalea's personal computer," including unreleased master recordings.
Flash forward to July 24, 2014, when a press release hit the wire announcing a joint venture among Primco, ESMG, Top Sail and Wine Enterprises, Inc., claiming that they had "secured the rights" to release an EP by Azalea entitled Inizio. The press release quoted Williams as saying, "We believe the merger will be monumental because the projects that we have coming down the pipeline are going to shock the world!”
Indeed.
According to Azalea's lawsuit, the music derived from her unreleased masters and constitutes violations of her copyright, trademark, name and likeness. She's also alleging conversion of stolen information from her computer.
Culled from Billboard
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