Iggy Azalea Naked Photos Leak: What Really Happened in 2019
Introduction
The Iggy Azalea naked photos leak is one of the most talked-about celebrity privacy stories of the last decade, and it is also one of the most misunderstood. In May 2019, Iggy Azalea deactivated her Instagram and Twitter accounts after private outtakes from a 2016 magazine photoshoot appeared online without her consent. She said she felt blindsided, embarrassed, violated, and angry — and she said she planned to press criminal charges against whoever was responsible.
This article explains the Iggy Azalea naked photos leak in plain English, without explicit images and without linking to the leaked material. You will learn who Iggy Azalea is, how she became famous, what the photos actually were, what she said at the time, what the photographer and the magazine said, and what happened to her career afterwards, including her retirement from music in 2024.
If you came here looking for the leaked photos themselves, you will not find them here. That is deliberate. The point of this story is consent: the photos were not meant to be published, and sharing them again is part of the harm. What follows is the factual record, her own words as reported at the time, and the wider lesson about privacy online.
Who Is Iggy Azalea?
Iggy Azalea is the stage name of Amethyst Amelia Kelly, an Australian rapper, songwriter, model, and businesswoman. She was born on 7 June 1990 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and she became one of the best-selling female rappers in the world. Her biggest hit, “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX, topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 and earned a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.
Her stage name comes from two parts of her childhood: Iggy, the name of her childhood dog, and Azalea Street, the street she grew up on in Mullumbimby, New South Wales. She has said her grandfather helped her think about how stage names work, and the combination stuck.
For a new reader, the simplest way to place her is this: she was a teenager from a small Australian town who moved to the United States alone at 16 to make hip-hop music, and within eight years she had a number-one single in America and was featured on one of the biggest pop songs of 2014. The leak story in 2019 came at a very different point in her career, after that peak, when she was working independently and rebuilding her music on her own terms.
Early Life in Australia
Amethyst Amelia Kelly was born in Sydney and grew up in Mullumbimby, a small town in New South Wales. Her father, Brendan Kelly, was a painter and comic artist, and her mother, Tanya, cleaned holiday houses and hotels. The family lived in a house her father built by hand from mud bricks, on about five hectares of land. She has two siblings, Mathias and Emerald Kelly.
She began rapping at age 14. Before going solo, she formed a group with two other girls from her neighbourhood, and she has described herself, even then, as the competitive one who took the work seriously. She has also said she hated school, apart from art class, and was teased for her homemade outfits. Art, her father’s work, and hip-hop were the three things that shaped her early years.
That background matters for the rest of the story. She did not come from a music-industry family, and she did not have a safe path into the business. She had to leave home, save money, and start again in a new country.
Moving to the United States at 16
In 2006, shortly before she turned 16, Azalea travelled to the United States. She told her parents she was going on holiday with a friend, but she decided to stay. She has quoted her mother crying and saying, “Just be safe,” and her own thought at the time: she was going by herself, and it felt crazy.
She first stayed in Miami, Florida, then lived briefly in Houston, Texas, and then settled for a few years in Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta she worked with Backbone, a member of the rap collective Dungeon Family, and met future collaborators FKi 1st and Natalie Sims. People laughed at her raps at first, she has said, because they thought they were bad. Having grown up being laughed at, she said she was able to shrug it off.
She moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2010, after someone from Interscope Records encouraged her to do so. Interscope managed her briefly. She later received her GED in the United States, lived for years on a visa waiver, returning to Australia every three months to renew it, worked in the US without the right visa until February 2013, when she was granted a five-year O visa, and in 2018 she was approved as a permanent US resident. Those details are worth knowing because they show how long and how uncertain the road to her breakthrough really was.
How Iggy Azalea Broke Through
Azalea’s breakthrough did not happen overnight. It came from YouTube videos, mixtapes, a much-discussed XXL Freshman cover, and a deal with American rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records. Each step made her more visible, and each step also made her a bigger target for public comment.
Ignorant Art, TrapGold, and Grand Hustle
On 27 September 2011, Azalea released her first full-length project, a mixtape titled Ignorant Art. She said she made it “with the intent to make people question and redefine old ideals.” The song “Pussy” was on the mixtape, along with guest appearances from YG, Joe Moses, Chevy Jones, and Problem. The music videos for “Pussy” and “Two Times” brought her recognition on YouTube.
In November 2011 she released a music video for “My World”, directed by Alex/2tone, with a cameo from actor and former wrestler Tiny Lister. In January 2012 she released “The Last Song”. In early 2012 she was featured on the cover of XXL as part of its annual Top 10 Freshman List, alongside French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Hopsin, and Roscoe Dash. The industry was now watching her.
On 1 March 2012, T.I. announced he had signed Azalea to Grand Hustle Records. On 26 March 2012 she posted “Murda Bizness”, the intended lead single for her debut album, featuring T.I. Her second mixtape, TrapGold, produced entirely by Diplo and FKi, followed on 11 October 2012. She made her US national television debut in a cypher at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards, and she toured in North America and Europe.
The pattern in these years is consistent: she released music herself, built an audience online, and then used that audience to get a label deal. That independent start would matter again later, when she left major labels and released music on her own.
The New Classic, Fancy, and Problem
Azalea’s commercial debut single, “Work”, premiered on BBC Radio 1Xtra on 11 February 2013, and she signed with Mercury Records. Her debut studio album, The New Classic, was released in 2014. It peaked in the top five of several charts worldwide and later topped the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making her the first non-American female rapper to achieve that.
The album’s lead single, “Fancy”, featuring Charli XCX, was a major commercial success. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and earned a nomination for Record of the Year at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The music video, inspired by the 1995 film Clueless, was released on 4 March 2014.
She was also featured on Ariana Grande’s 2014 single “Problem”, which peaked at number two behind “Fancy”. That made her only the second act after the Beatles to hold the top two positions on the chart simultaneously with debut entries. A further single from the album, “Black Widow”, featuring Rita Ora, also reached the top ten. At one point she had three top-ten hits on the Hot 100 at the same time: “Fancy”, “Problem”, and “Black Widow”.
Her accolades include two American Music Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, a People’s Choice Award, and four Teen Choice Awards, as well as four Grammy nominations. Her YouTube channel, together with collaborators, has accumulated over 7 billion views, and 15 of her music videos have passed 100 million views on Vevo. Those numbers are why the 2019 leak was such a big news story: she was not a minor figure, she was a global pop star whose private images had been shared without her consent.
After The New Classic, she released several singles intended for a planned second album, Digital Distortion. Ongoing conflicts with her record label, compounded by personal difficulties, led to the project’s cancellation. She then signed with Island Records and released her fourth extended play, Survive the Summer, in 2018. Further disputes with the label prompted her to go independent again. That independence is the bridge to the next part of the story, because the leak happened in May 2019, just as she was releasing music on her own label.
The Iggy Azalea Naked Photos Leak — What Happened in May 2019
The Iggy Azalea naked photos leak happened over a weekend in late May 2019. Topless outtakes from a photoshoot she had done for GQ Australia in 2016 appeared online. Azalea deactivated her Instagram and Twitter accounts, then issued a statement explaining what had happened, and said she would press criminal charges against whoever leaked the images.
This section sticks to what was reported at the time by the BBC, CNN via AmeyawDebrah, The Fader, Capital FM, and other outlets. It does not describe the images in detail, and it does not link to them. The facts that matter are simpler than the rumours: the photos were outtakes, they were never meant to be published, she did not consent to their release, and the reaction online was part of why she left social media.
What the Photos Were
The images were outtakes from a 2016 GQ magazine shoot. Azalea had been the cover star for GQ Australia’s Woman of the Year issue in December 2016, photographed by Nino Munoz. The published shoot included topless images in which her hands covered her breasts. The leaked images were outtakes from that same shoot — images that were not selected for publication, and that were more explicit than the published ones.
Azalea said in her statement: “Recently some outtakes from my 2016 GQ magazine cover were leaked to the public.” She added: “There was no reason for anyone to have kept the outtakes from the shoot. I’m surprised and angry that they were not immediately deleted after the final images were selected.”
That last point is important. In a magazine shoot, the photographer and the magazine take many more images than they publish. The unselected images are normally deleted or kept securely. In this case, outtakes from three years earlier were still somewhere they could be taken and shared.
A 2016 story on GQ Australia’s site, titled “Iggy Azalea Gifts Plastic Surgeon Signed Topless Photo”, featured a photo of Azalea with her hands placed on her breasts. Azalea had sent a signed topless photo as a thank-you gift to her plastic surgeon, Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, after breast augmentation and rhinoplasty that year. That published, consented image is not the same as the leaked outtakes. The distinction matters: consenting to one published image does not mean consenting to every outtake from the same shoot being shared years later.
The BBC reported on 28 May 2019 that the images that leaked were outtakes from a 2016 photoshoot, which were more explicit than the images published in GQ, and that officially sanctioned images from the photoshoot were still available on GQ’s website.
What Iggy Azalea Said
Azalea issued a statement on social media on Monday 27 May 2019, before deactivating her accounts again. Her words, as reported by the BBC, AmeyawDebrah, The Fader, Capital FM, and Nylon, were direct and emotional.
She wrote that she felt “blindsided, embarrassed, violated, angry, sad and a million other things”. She added: “Not solely because I did not consent to this — but also because of the vile way people have reacted.”
She explained her understanding before the shoot: “I never consented to taking topless pictures for potential release, period. It was my understanding BEFORE shooting, GQ do not print topless pictures.”
She also explained why she had agreed to the shoot in the first place: “A lot of high profile women have shot covers for GQ with a strategically placed hand, etc, covering their breasts. I always felt they were very beautiful covers, so I jumped at the opportunity. I hadn’t seen other women’s covers leak so I felt comfortable (on a closed set) to model for such a reputable magazine knowing only the images with my hands covering [my breasts] would be considered for print.”
And she was clear about what she would do next: “I fully intend on finding out where the leak originated from and pressing criminal charges in regards to this.” AmeyawDebrah reported the same point in simpler terms: the “Fancy” star had vowed to take legal action against whoever leaked the images.
She ended her note by saying it was best, for now, to keep her accounts deactivated. That decision was not only about the photos themselves. It was also about the reaction to them.
What the Photographer and GQ Said
The photographer who took the pictures, Nino Munoz, said on Instagram that Azalea’s images were “stolen and published without my permission”. He said he was “outraged and saddened” to find out that images of his were stolen and published without his permission, and that an investigation was underway. He added that posting the stolen images was illegal and that anyone who had done so would be prosecuted. He denied any involvement in the leak.
GQ Australia editor Michael Christensen was approached for comment by The Fader. He said: “We were very disappointed to learn that outtakes from a 2016 photo shoot which were not approved or intended for publication appear to have been stolen from the photographer.”
Those two statements agree on the core facts: the outtakes were not approved for publication, they were not intended for publication, and they appear to have been stolen from the photographer. Neither statement explains how the leak happened, and at the time of reporting it was still unknown how the images had been obtained. That uncertainty is part of why Azalea said she intended to find out where the leak originated.
Why She Left Social Media
Azalea deactivated both her Instagram and Twitter accounts after the leak. The BBC reported that it was the “vicious” and “vile” reactions to the photos, including men sharing sexual fantasies, that led her to erase her accounts — not only the leak itself.
That distinction is worth pausing on. A leak is a privacy violation. The public reaction to a leak can be a second violation. Azalea said she felt “a ball of negative emotions”, and she listed them: blindsided, embarrassed, violated, angry, sad, and “a million other things”. She did not say she was leaving social media forever. She said, for now, it was best to keep her accounts deactivated.
She did return to social media later, and she continued to release music. But the May 2019 exit is the moment most people remember, because it made the cost of the leak visible. She was not just a headline. She was a person who had lost control of images of her own body, and who had then watched strangers react to them in public.
Expert tip: when you read about a leak like this, pay attention to who is quoted. In this case, the person whose images were shared, the photographer, and the magazine all said the same thing — no consent, not for publication, stolen. That agreement is a strong signal that the story is a privacy violation, not a publicity stunt.
Timeline: Iggy Azalea, 1990 to 2024
| Year | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7 June 1990 | Amethyst Amelia Kelly is born in Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 | Begins rapping at age 14 |
| 2006 | Moves to the United States at 16, first in Miami, then Houston, then Atlanta |
| 2010 | Moves to Los Angeles |
| 27 Sept 2011 | Releases first mixtape, Ignorant Art |
| 1 Mar 2012 | T.I. announces she has signed to Grand Hustle Records |
| 11 Oct 2012 | Releases second mixtape, TrapGold |
| 11 Feb 2013 | Debut single “Work” premieres on BBC Radio 1Xtra |
| 2014 | Debut album The New Classic is released; “Fancy” tops the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 2014 | Featured on Ariana Grande’s “Problem”, which peaks at No. 2 |
| 2015 | “Fancy” earns a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year |
| 2016 | GQ Australia Woman of the Year cover shoot, photographed by Nino Munoz |
| 2018 | Releases EP Survive the Summer with Island Records; leaves the label later that year |
| 19 July 2019 | Releases second studio album, In My Defense, independently |
| 27-28 May 2019 | GQ outtakes leak online; she deactivates Instagram and Twitter and says she will press charges |
| 2019 | Releases EP Wicked Lips |
| 13 Aug 2021 | Releases third studio album, The End of an Era |
| 3 Jan 2024 | Billboard reports she has seemingly announced her retirement from music on social media |
Note on dates: the leak in May 2019 came two months before In My Defense was released in July 2019. The album’s singles, “Sally Walker” and “Started”, were already part of her independent comeback. The leak did not stop that release, but it did shape how the year is remembered.
What Happened Next — Her Career After 2019
A common mistake in coverage of the Iggy Azalea naked photos leak is to treat May 2019 as the end of her story. It was not. She continued to release music, she built her own label, and she later announced her retirement from music in 2024. The leak is one chapter, not the whole book.
In My Defense, Wicked Lips, and The End of an Era
After leaving Island Records in November 2018, Azalea announced she had signed a distribution deal and created her own label, Bad Dreams Records, later also called New Classic Records in some reports. She also announced a partnership with Empire Distribution. The point was control: she would own her masters, with exceptions for music licensed under Universal, and she would release music on her own schedule.
Her second studio album, In My Defense, was released on 19 July 2019. It included “Sally Walker” and “Started”, songs that paired sharp, assertive rap with bold visuals. That same year she followed it with the EP Wicked Lips, continuing to release music outside the major-label cycle that had shaped her early success.
Her third studio album, The End of an Era, was released on 13 August 2021. It looked back on her experiences in the music business while keeping a pop-rap frame. Songs such as “I Am The Stripclub” showed her continuing to test club-ready sounds, while the album as a whole had a more reflective perspective than her debut.
In the summer of 2020 she had announced the third album. On 15 July 2021 she announced she would take a hiatus from music after its release. One year later, on 8 August 2022, she announced she would resume musical activity. That back-and-forth — hiatus, return, retirement — is part of why a simple “is she still making music?” question needs a careful answer.
Retirement From Music in 2024
In 2024, Azalea announced her retirement from music via social media, as reported by Billboard on 3 January 2024. The Billboard report, by Kyle Denis, was titled “Iggy Azalea Seemingly Announces Music Retirement: ‘I’m Not Going to Finish My Album'”. Wikipedia, which cites that report, lists her years active as 2011-2024 and describes her as a former rapper.
That does not mean she disappeared. She has continued as a model and businesswoman, and she has remained a public figure on social media and in business ventures. But as of 2026, the public record is clear: she announced a retirement from music in 2024, after three studio albums, several EPs and mixtapes, and a decade at the top of pop-rap.
For a reader in the United States, the practical takeaway is simple: if you are looking for new Iggy Azalea music in 2026, the most recent studio album is still The End of an Era from 2021. If you are looking for the leak story, it belongs to May 2019, not to her current work.
Why This Story Still Matters — Privacy, Consent, and the Internet
The Iggy Azalea naked photos leak still matters because it is a clear example of a problem that has not gone away: private images, taken in a professional setting with clear limits, can be stolen, shared, and then used to punish the person in them. The technology has changed since 2019, but the pattern has not.
What Non-Consensual Sharing Means
Non-consensual sharing means sharing an intimate image of a person without their permission. It does not matter whether the image was taken in a professional shoot, whether the person once shared a different image, or whether the image is already online. Consent is specific: consent to one image, in one place, at one time, is not consent to every image from the same shoot, forever.
In Azalea’s case, the consent was narrow and explicit in her own account: she understood that GQ did not print topless pictures, and that only images with her hands covering her breasts would be considered for print. The leaked outtakes were outside that consent. The photographer said they were stolen. GQ said they were not approved or intended for publication. That is the definition of non-consensual sharing.
Many US states now have laws against non-consensual intimate image sharing, often called revenge-porn laws, and the exact rules vary by state. This article does not give legal advice, and it does not state what charges, if any, were filed in this case. The public record at the time was that Azalea said she intended to press criminal charges and to find out where the leak originated. If you need legal help with a similar situation in the US, contact a local lawyer or a victim-support organisation in your state, not a search result.
What to Do If You See Leaked Images
If you come across leaked intimate images of anyone, celebrity or not, the helpful response is boring and practical. It is also the response Azalea’s own story points to.
Checklist — what to do:
- Do not share, repost, download, or save the images.
- Do not search for them to “see for yourself” — every view and share increases the harm.
- Report the post on the platform where you saw it, using its non-consensual intimate image option.
- If the person is someone you know, tell them privately, once, and do not send them the images.
- If you run a site or a social account, do not publish the images, do not link to them, and do not describe them in graphic detail.
- If you are the person in the images, save evidence of where they appeared, report them to the platform, and seek legal and emotional support from a trusted organisation in your state.
Common mistakes:
- Mistake: “She posed topless once, so she consented to everything.” Correction: consent to one published image is not consent to unpublished outtakes.
- Mistake: “It is already online, so sharing it again does not matter.” Correction: every new share is a new violation, and it makes removal harder.
- Mistake: “It must be a publicity stunt.” Correction: in this case, the artist, the photographer, and the magazine all said the images were stolen and not for publication.
- Mistake: “I will just describe the images in detail instead of posting them.” Correction: graphic description can also be harmful, and it does not help anyone understand the story.
Best practice for readers and publishers: report the facts, quote the person, and stop there. That is what the BBC did, and it is what this article does.
Common Mistakes in Coverage
Coverage of celebrity leaks often makes three mistakes. First, it focuses on the images instead of the consent. Second, it treats the celebrity as a character in a story, not as a person who has been harmed. Third, it leaves the story in 2019, as if nothing happened afterwards.
This article avoids all three. The images are not described in detail and are not linked to. Azalea’s own words are quoted, and the photographer’s and GQ’s statements are included, so the reader can see the agreement. And her career after 2019 — In My Defense, Wicked Lips, The End of an Era, and retirement in 2024 — is given the same weight as the leak itself.
Iggy Azalea Songs and Albums at a Glance
| Album / Project | Year | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ignorant Art | 2011 | Mixtape | First full-length project; includes “Pussy” |
| TrapGold | 2012 | Mixtape | Produced entirely by Diplo and FKi |
| Glory | 2012 | EP | Released 30 July 2012 |
| The New Classic | 2014 | Studio album | Debut album; includes “Fancy”, “Black Widow”, “Work” |
| Reclassified | 2014 | Reissue | Reissue of The New Classic |
| Survive the Summer | 2018 | EP | Includes “Kream” featuring Tyga |
| In My Defense | 2019 | Studio album | Independent release; includes “Sally Walker”, “Started” |
| Wicked Lips | 2019 | EP | Released the same year as In My Defense |
| The End of an Era | 2021 | Studio album | Third studio album; includes “I Am The Stripclub” |
Biggest songs to know:
- “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX — No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, 2014
- “Problem” with Ariana Grande — No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, 2014; Azalea is featured
- “Black Widow” featuring Rita Ora — top ten, 2014
- “Work” — debut single, 2013
- “Bounce” and “Change Your Life” featuring T.I. — early singles from The New Classic era
- “Kream” featuring Tyga — lead single from Survive the Summer, 2018
- “Sally Walker” and “Started” — singles from In My Defense, 2019
Awards and Records
- Two American Music Awards
- Three Billboard Music Awards
- One MTV Video Music Award
- One People’s Choice Award
- Four Teen Choice Awards
- Four Grammy Award nominations, including Record of the Year for “Fancy” at the 2015 Grammys
- First non-American female rapper to top the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with The New Classic
- Only the second act after the Beatles to hold the top two positions on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously with debut entries, with “Fancy” at No. 1 and “Problem” at No. 2
- Over 7 billion views on her YouTube channel, together with collaborators, and 15 music videos with over 100 million views on Vevo
These records are useful because they show why the leak was treated as major news. She was not a new artist in 2019. She was an established, award-winning artist with a global audience.
Conclusion
The Iggy Azalea naked photos leak was not a mystery, and it was not a publicity stunt. In May 2019, outtakes from a 2016 GQ Australia photoshoot, taken by Nino Munoz and never intended for publication, appeared online. Iggy Azalea said she felt blindsided, embarrassed, violated, angry, and sad. She said she had never consented to the release, and she said she would press criminal charges. The photographer said the images were stolen. GQ said they were not approved or intended for publication. Azalea deactivated her social media accounts, in part because of the vicious reaction to the photos.
She did not stop there. She released In My Defense in July 2019, Wicked Lips later that year, and The End of an Era in 2021. In 2024 she announced her retirement from music. The leak is part of her story, but it is not the whole story. Her career began in Mullumbimby, Australia, at age 14, continued through Miami, Houston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Fancy” in 2014.
If you remember one thing from this article, remember the consent point: a person can agree to one published image and still be violated when unpublished outtakes are shared years later. Do not share leaked images, do not search for them to satisfy curiosity, and report them when you see them. That is the practical lesson of the Iggy Azalea naked photos leak, and it applies far beyond one celebrity.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who is Iggy Azalea?
Iggy Azalea is the stage name of Amethyst Amelia Kelly, an Australian rapper, songwriter, model, and businesswoman, born on 7 June 1990 in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014.
2. What is Iggy Azalea’s real name?
Her real name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly. “Iggy” comes from her childhood dog, and “Azalea” comes from Azalea Street, the street she grew up on in Mullumbimby, Australia.
3. How old is Iggy Azalea?
She was born on 7 June 1990, so she was 28 years old when the photos leaked in May 2019, and she turned 36 in June 2026.
4. What happened in the Iggy Azalea naked photos leak?
In May 2019, topless outtakes from a 2016 GQ Australia photoshoot, photographed by Nino Munoz, appeared online without her consent. The outtakes were never intended for publication. Azalea deactivated her Instagram and Twitter accounts and said she would press criminal charges.
5. Were the photos from GQ?
Yes. The photos were outtakes from a 2016 GQ Australia shoot for the Woman of the Year issue. The published shoot included topless images with her hands covering her breasts. The leaked images were unselected outtakes from the same shoot.
6. Did Iggy Azalea consent to the photos being shared?
No. She said: “I never consented to taking topless pictures for potential release, period.” She said her understanding before the shoot was that GQ did not print topless pictures, and that only images with her hands covering her breasts would be considered for print.
7. Why did Iggy Azalea leave social media in 2019?
She deactivated Instagram and Twitter after the leak. She said she felt blindsided, embarrassed, violated, angry, and sad, and the BBC reported that the vicious and vile reactions to the photos, including men sharing sexual fantasies, led her to erase her accounts. She said, for now, it was best to keep them deactivated.
8. Did Iggy Azalea press charges over the leak?
At the time, she said she fully intended to find out where the leak originated and to press criminal charges. The photographer said an investigation was underway. This article does not state what charges, if any, were later filed, because that was not confirmed in the sources used here.
9. What is Iggy Azalea’s biggest song?
“Fancy”, featuring Charli XCX, is her biggest song. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 and was nominated for Record of the Year at the 2015 Grammy Awards. She was also featured on Ariana Grande’s “Problem”, which reached No. 2 at the same time.
10. Is Iggy Azalea still making music?
No, not as of the latest public record. She released her third studio album, The End of an Era, in 2021, and in January 2024 Billboard reported that she had seemingly announced her retirement from music on social media. She remains a model and businesswoman.
Sources
- BBC News — “Iggy Azalea ‘felt violated’ by nude photo leak”, 28 May 2019: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48431172
- Wikipedia — “Iggy Azalea”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Azalea
- IMDb — “Iggy Azalea – Biography”: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5404318/bio/
- The Fader — “Iggy Azalea issues statement following photo leak”, 28 May 2019: https://www.thefader.com/2019/05/28/iggy-azalea-leaked-photographs-statement
- Capital FM — “Iggy Azalea breaks silence after her topless GQ photos leak”: https://www.capitalfm.com/news/music/iggy-azalea-gq-photos-leak/
- AmeyawDebrah.com — “Iggy Azalea leaves social media after nude photos leak”: https://ameyawdebrah.com/iggy-azalea-leaves-social-media-after-nude-photos-leak/
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