Rapper Iggy Azalea is suing her ex-boyfriend, Maurice Williams (also known by Jefe Wine in the rap world), for copying files containing unreleased songs off her computer and then releasing them this past August.
In a complaint obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Iggy Azalea, born Amethyst Kelly, claims that Williams “downloaded the entire contents of Azalea’s personal computer, including the [songs], onto a jump drive without her consent” when the two were romantically involved between 2008 and 2009.
“Defendants have defied Azalea’s demands,” the complaint says, “that they refrain from wrongfully exploiting her name, likeness and copyrighted music by distributing her music without her consent and by using her trademarked name and her likeness to promote themselves and the music they misappropriated.”
After some of the unreleased songs started appearing on music retailers’ sites, like Amazon and Google Play, in August, Azalea and Universal Music Group put out cease-and-desists, which most retailers obeyed. However, Williams is still promoting a Sept. 30 release date of the entire collection of songs, titled Inizio.
According to the complaint, dated Sept. 17, Azalea is asking for a declaration that she owns the rights to the unreleased songs, along with damages.
The complaint makes no specific mention of a sex tape allegedly of Williams and Azalea that was sent to Vivid Entertainment earlier this month. Williams told TMZ that he was not the one to leak the tape, saying his computer was stolen. He also claimed that she had signed an agreement allowing him to “manufacture, sell, distribute and advertise ‘any’ recording embodying visual images.” Iggy’s reps, meanwhile, told TMZ that the alleged tape was possibly shot “without her knowledge or consent,” and may have been while she was underage.
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