Iggy Azalea has lambasted her business partner on social media for leaking unauthorised images of their project online.
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The Fancy singer vented her frustration via Twitter after a "lover's quarrel" with designer Steve Madden, who she is launching a collaborative shoe collection with in the coming weeks.
The MC discovered "a random Tumblr page" reportedly featuring unapproved images from the range's soon-to-be launched advertising campaign.
"Everything in a collaboration is supposed to be mutually approved but Steve Madden did the most disgusting photo shoot ever and never even told me about it, I'm not just seeing it as it's uploaded on some random Tumblr page and I am livid," she tweeted to her four million followers.
"Kinda ruined the creative direction when you added those gross extra pictures to a random tumblr page I had no part in creating.
"Ivd [sic] been bamoozeled with a Tumblr page where everyone wears socks and takes unintentional crotch shots on pool toys. I am in shock," she continued.
She has since deleted her tweets referring to the "God awful images".
The Tumblr page, which features bright images and gifs mixed with shots of headless models, photos of Azelea and the unattributed quote, "I wanted to make shoes your girlfriends would love and your boyfriends wouldn't understand", has now been turned private.
"This was a lover's quarrel. We love Iggy and are very excited about our collaboration. When you get two artists working together sometimes there are fireworks. It's our creative differences that allow us to design an incredible collection and we are looking forward to sharing it with the world," a spokesperson from The Steve Madden Company told Huffington Post.
This isn't the first time Madden's business dealings have been scrutinised. In the early 1990s, Jordan "The Wolf of Wall Street" Belfort floated the company on the stock exchange. The initial public offering [IPO] was a resounding success until Belfort ratted out Madden and others from profiting from his firm's illegal activities.
He spent 31 months in jail, while Belfort served just 22 months.
The Steve Madden Company is now reportedly worth $US2.3 billion.
