Earlier this year Instagram model Iryna Ivanova launched a case against the producer after she claimed she wasn’t paid after she acted as the ‘main girl’ in his video with Justin Bieber.

Narrowly avoiding a July date in the small claims court in the US, last month the suit was settled and Iryna was paid what she was owed, after originally agreeing to a fee of $1,250 (£959) for riding in on a white horse on a bikini in the shoot, filmed in February 2017.

If you’ll remember – and odds are you’ve seen, as the video has so far clocked up more than one billion views – Iryna was the bikini-clad model who rode in on a horse as DJ Khaled danced around a swanky beachside mansion with mates Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil Wayne.

The model, 31, spoke to press in the wake of the settlement about how she wants to be the cautionary tale to other women at risk of being taken advantage of in the music industry.

‘We finally sorted everything out after about a year,’ she told us, about the lengthy battle to get her due pay. ‘It’s more the principle than the money.

‘It wasn’t that much, it was the fact it seemed like it happened a lot [that women didn’t get paid].’

The Russian born and bred model – who now splits her time between Spain and Arizona – sports a massive following on Instagram with 4.4million fans and floods her feed with bikini shots and pouts a-plenty.

However, she wants people to know that while she’s a social media model, her voice is here to be heard just as loud as anyone else’s as she explains to us how she landed the plum equine-centred role.

‘They reached out to me on Instagram [and asked] if I wanted to be the lead – and they needed me to be there in eight hours. I lived in Arizona and it was in California,’ she said. ‘It wasn’t a problem, I bought my own ticket did my own makeup and hair.’

However, when it came to the fee, she said: ‘There was a certain price that was agreed to be paid to me right after the shoot and video was done, I reached out multiple times to get paid and

nobody answered me via email, via text.