In June 2005, a 30-second clip of Eve surfaced – dated November 20 1999 – showing a man using a sex toy on the rapper-turned-actress and pleasuring himself.

At the time a spokeswoman for the star told the New York Daily News that the tape was made “years ago with her boyfriend of over two years”. She added, “The fact that a private moment is being made public is a violation, and we would hope that people would respect her privacy as they would their own.”

The star has a tendency to take these things in her stride. In 2003 someone tried to sell a steamy photograph of her and another woman. Eve told the same New York tabloid “I used to strip, so it could be me. Or it could not be me.”