Pop big mouth Lily Allen has attacked the New York Times for allegedly selling photos taken inside her London flat to OK! magazine behind her back.
The high-brow daily paper, which ran a story about the singer earlier this month, reportedly sold the snaps taken to compliment the piece to other media companies without Lil's consent.
In a message posted her MySpace page, the Smile singer described the New York Times' actions as 'cheap and disgusting' and that she was 'furious' that what she thought was a quality publication would sell her photos to a 'tabloidy' mag.
She explained: "A photographer, whose name escapes me, came round to the house to take a picture to accompany the NYT piece, they wanted one picture of me in my home setting.
"Seeing as the piece was so intimate and the biggest part of the interview had been conducted at my house. It is unusual for me to allow photographers into my home but these seemed like special circumstances and after all the NYT is one of the most respected news publications in the world.
"When you read magazines such as NOW, People, US weekly, Heat, More etc they print pictures that they buy from other magazines for instance, I'll do a shoot and an interview with SPIN magazine or Observer Music Monthly and they might syndicate those pictures or sell them to other magazines.
"These magazines will then print those pictures alongside a whole bunch of quotes lifted from previous interviews. This can be incredibly misleading and tedious as I would never sit down and do an interview with most of the tabloidy magazines."
"I don't do this because I'm a snob, it's more because the more credible magazines are unlikely to take me seriously and work with me if it looks like IâÂÂve been doing interview with whoever will listen."
Lily added that she'd been torn off a strip by her publicist for not insisting on a photo contract: "Needless to say I was mortified, in fact I was in tears, six photos of inside my home for everyone to see, and a made up interview that was very misleading.
"All this because I'd let the NYT photographer into my home. I was furious and got on the phone immediately. Everybody assures me this is completely unheard of for the NYT to act in such a cheap and disgusting way.
"Sorry if this makes for tedious reading but, I think the NYT have behaved really badly and I wanted to vent . It's one thing posing for a picture for TNYT and wholly another letting OK into your house, and I didn't even get paid."
Glad we got to the bottom of that one Lil' - don't get The Fear next time... come to us we'll sort them out.
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