Miley Cyrus takes a swipe at pop rival with stunning claim about stealing from fans

Daily Mail​

28-04-2025

took a swipe at her pop rival as she had a hilarious fan encounter in NYC this week.
The Flowers hitmaker, 32, was memorably embroiled in a spat with pop icon Grace Jones, 76, who accused the Hannah Montana star of poorly ripping off her style in 2015.
In her memoir, Slave To The Rhythm singer, model and actress Jones ranted: 'The problem with … the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision. They dress up as though they are challenging the status quo, but by now, wearing those clothes, pulling those faces, revealing those tattoos and breasts, singing to those fractured, melting beats — that is the status quo.
'You are not off the beaten track, pushing through the thorny undergrowth, finding treasure no one has come across before. You are in the middle of the road.'
In a video posted by X account Out of Context Hannah Montana, the star met with her fans and was presented with a New York Post front page which showed her naked wrapped in a sheet from her controversial Vanity Fair cover aged 15.
The explosive front page - which Cyrus had previously slammed - said: 'MILEY'S SHAME. TV'S Hannah apologizes for nearly nude pic.'
After Cyrus admitted she had never 'seen the front page' in real life, she signed it and quipped: 'I'm not Grace Jones, she steals all the merch from... if you ask her to sign a magazine, she takes it.'
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Grace Jones for comment.
At the time the photo of the teenage Cyrus taken by Annie Leibovitz ignited a firestorm of backlash and she later apologized for the snap.
A Disney spokesman said: 'Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.
Cyrus released a statement of her own adding: 'I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic,' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.'
However she later walked back the apology in 2018, tweeting: 'IM NOT SORRY. F**k YOU.'
'When this photo was taken, my little sister [Noah] was here on set. She was actually sitting with Annie Leibovitz taking photos too.
'There was nothing sexualized about this on set. It was everyone's poisonous thoughts and minds that ended up turning this into something that wasn't meant to be. So actually, I shouldn't be ashamed, they should be.'
The Grammy and Golden Globe nominee hinted that she felt pressure from her team and the Disney Channel, who scolded Vanity Fair for 'deliberately manipulating' her to 'sell magazines.'
In a video posted by X account Out of Context Hannah Montana , the star met with her fans and was presented with a New York Post front page which showed her naked wrapped in a sheet from her controversial Vanity Fair cover aged 15
At the time the photo of the teenage Cyrus taken by Annie Leibovitz ignited a firestorm of backlash and she later apologized for the snap - but retracted it years later
'I think I [apologized at the time], but I'm sure someone told me to,' Miley explained.
'But you know what? That's why I don't do what people tell me to anymore, because that idea sucked.'
Cyrus added: 'I was trying to balance and understand what being a role model is and, to me, I think being a role model has been my free spiritedness and sometimes my unapologetic attitude.'
Elsewhere in her memoir Jones claimed: 'I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes, people assume I am that rich.
'But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money, and too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.
'Trends come along and people say, 'Follow that trend'.
'There's a lot of that around at the moment: 'Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna.'
'I cannot be like them - except to the extent that they are already being like me.'
Jones first gained recognition as part of the New York City scene during the Studio 54 disco era of the late 1970s.
By the 1980s, she moved to a more new wave sound, drawing inspiration from other genres likes reggae, funk, post-punk and pop music.
Combining with her striking looks and fashionista tendencies, Jones would go on to score Tp 40 hits with Private Life, Pull Up The Bumper, I've Seen That Face Before and Slave To The Rhythm.
Sh also would enjoy success in the 1980s as an actress, starring in such films as Conan the Destroyer (1984) alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), with Roger Moore in what would be the fourteenth film in the 007 series.
Over the years and decades, many female artists cited Jones as an inspiration, including the likes of Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Annie Lennox, Lorde and Beyoncé's sister Solange, among others.