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*finds kate's hankerchief*
...200$ boogers! :D
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Supermodel Kate Moss 'admits cocaine use' (Updated 6/16/06)
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Anti-Drug Billionaire Who Ended Moss's 12M Deal
H&M Boss With Strict Moral Code Took 'Only Decision Possible' In Firing Kate Moss
The Observer
September 25, 2005
The man who fired supermodel Kate Moss from fashion giant H&M, triggering the costliest week of her career, is a Swedish billionaire obsessed with corporate ethics and responsibility, fiercely protective of his company's public image and a founding trustee of a charity dedicated to fighting drugs.
Stefan Persson, 57, H&M's executive chairman, cancelled Moss's contract, reportedly worth UKP1.2 million, because apparent photographic evidence of her cocaine abuse was 'not consistent with the company's clear policy on drugs'. It has emerged that he would otherwise have faced severe embarrassment from Mentor, a drugs prevention organisation fronted by the Swedish royal family and supported by H&M, which told The Observer that Persson made 'the only decision possible'.
H&M's announcement last week came as a surprise because at first many in the fashion industry had shrugged their shoulders and opined that 'supermodel takes drugs' was hardly a revelation. But soon, led by H&M, a domino effect was under way: Chanel and Burberry axed 31-year-old Moss, taking her week's losses above UKP2m. Rimmel and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans also said they are reviewing their contracts with her, signalling that the industry will no longer turn a blind eye to so-called 'heroin chic'.
Moss's mistake was to offend Persson's strict moral code; the stereotypically reserved Swede is one of the country's biggest taxpayers and has been known to phone journalists at home to complain about inaccuracies in their articles. Moss's dismissal last week bears the signs of another personal intervention by Persson, estimated to be worth UKP4.8 billion.
Initially Moss appeared to have weathered the storm over grainy Daily Mirror pictures which showed her allegedly snorting cocaine in the company of her rock star boyfriend Pete Doherty in a recording studio. On 16 September, a UK spokesman for H&M, which had signed Moss for its autumn clothing collection, designed by Stella McCartney, said: 'We met Kate ... and she has told us she regrets the incident and has apologised to us. We are going to give her a second chance.'
But there were quickly signs that the company had misjudged the mood of the public, and some sections of the media. Over the weekend that followed, its stores were inundated with calls of protest, a worrying development in conservative parts of America, where H&M is seeking to expand. The Daily Mail, Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper, published an alarming editorial: 'The Mail has a question: Would it make a difference to these oh-so-chic executives of the fashion industry if their customers - worried about their children's future and wanting to take a stand against drugs - refused to buy their goods?'
By Tuesday, H&M had sacked Moss. But according to some press reports, Jorgen Andersson, the company's director of communications and marketing, had been so touched by a phone call from a distraught and apologetic Moss that he wanted to keep her on. He told the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet: 'We are marketing H&M's clothes, not the model,' and added: 'If she honestly regrets it, I don't rule out [using her again].'
However, H&M spokeswoman Anna Bergare said that the final decision was taken by 'people on the highest level in the company', believed to mean Persson and managing director Rolf Eriksen. She added: 'After much thought and consideration of all the factors we felt that the image that had been portrayed [by Moss] was not consistent with our company's clear policy on drugs.'
Persson - who inherited the Hennes & Mauritz brand from his father and has made it one of Europe's biggest fashion retailers with more than 1,100 stores in 22 countries - has little sympathy for the industry's casual attitude towards drug abuse. His favourite charity is Mentor, a drug prevention group of which he is a founding trustee. Its president is Sweden's Queen Silvia and one of its most active trustees is Princess Anni-Frid Reuss-Lyngstad, better known as the brunette in Abba.
The charity held its biggest fundraising event of the year last Thursday, a gala performance of the Abba musical Mamma Mia, with tickets selling for up to UKP400 each. Persson was among the guests and his hard line on the Moss issue ensured he was spared embarrassment.
H&M is one of Mentor Sweden's seven 'general partners', each of which contributes UKP100,000 annually to the charity's work. Nina Johansson of Mentor made clear its expectations of how H&M would react to the Moss controversy. She said: 'From Mentor's perspective ... it was the only decision possible. H&M is an image maker and an example to young people.'
Persson himself, writing on the Mentor Foundation home page, says: 'Companies must take on social responsibility. Companies often serve as social models and are moulders of public opinion.'
He has led by example, differing from many of his business contemporaries by refusing to become a tax exile. He has established charitable foundations for healthcare, medical research and drug rehabilitation schemes. He runs H&M - which is often compared to Sweden's other international retailer, Ikea - as a tight ship with few business-class flights, taxis or company mobile phones.
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H&M Boss With Strict Moral Code Took 'Only Decision Possible' In Firing Kate Moss
The Observer
September 25, 2005
The man who fired supermodel Kate Moss from fashion giant H&M, triggering the costliest week of her career, is a Swedish billionaire obsessed with corporate ethics and responsibility, fiercely protective of his company's public image and a founding trustee of a charity dedicated to fighting drugs.
Stefan Persson, 57, H&M's executive chairman, cancelled Moss's contract, reportedly worth UKP1.2 million, because apparent photographic evidence of her cocaine abuse was 'not consistent with the company's clear policy on drugs'. It has emerged that he would otherwise have faced severe embarrassment from Mentor, a drugs prevention organisation fronted by the Swedish royal family and supported by H&M, which told The Observer that Persson made 'the only decision possible'.
H&M's announcement last week came as a surprise because at first many in the fashion industry had shrugged their shoulders and opined that 'supermodel takes drugs' was hardly a revelation. But soon, led by H&M, a domino effect was under way: Chanel and Burberry axed 31-year-old Moss, taking her week's losses above UKP2m. Rimmel and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans also said they are reviewing their contracts with her, signalling that the industry will no longer turn a blind eye to so-called 'heroin chic'.
Moss's mistake was to offend Persson's strict moral code; the stereotypically reserved Swede is one of the country's biggest taxpayers and has been known to phone journalists at home to complain about inaccuracies in their articles. Moss's dismissal last week bears the signs of another personal intervention by Persson, estimated to be worth UKP4.8 billion.
Initially Moss appeared to have weathered the storm over grainy Daily Mirror pictures which showed her allegedly snorting cocaine in the company of her rock star boyfriend Pete Doherty in a recording studio. On 16 September, a UK spokesman for H&M, which had signed Moss for its autumn clothing collection, designed by Stella McCartney, said: 'We met Kate ... and she has told us she regrets the incident and has apologised to us. We are going to give her a second chance.'
But there were quickly signs that the company had misjudged the mood of the public, and some sections of the media. Over the weekend that followed, its stores were inundated with calls of protest, a worrying development in conservative parts of America, where H&M is seeking to expand. The Daily Mail, Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper, published an alarming editorial: 'The Mail has a question: Would it make a difference to these oh-so-chic executives of the fashion industry if their customers - worried about their children's future and wanting to take a stand against drugs - refused to buy their goods?'
By Tuesday, H&M had sacked Moss. But according to some press reports, Jorgen Andersson, the company's director of communications and marketing, had been so touched by a phone call from a distraught and apologetic Moss that he wanted to keep her on. He told the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet: 'We are marketing H&M's clothes, not the model,' and added: 'If she honestly regrets it, I don't rule out [using her again].'
However, H&M spokeswoman Anna Bergare said that the final decision was taken by 'people on the highest level in the company', believed to mean Persson and managing director Rolf Eriksen. She added: 'After much thought and consideration of all the factors we felt that the image that had been portrayed [by Moss] was not consistent with our company's clear policy on drugs.'
Persson - who inherited the Hennes & Mauritz brand from his father and has made it one of Europe's biggest fashion retailers with more than 1,100 stores in 22 countries - has little sympathy for the industry's casual attitude towards drug abuse. His favourite charity is Mentor, a drug prevention group of which he is a founding trustee. Its president is Sweden's Queen Silvia and one of its most active trustees is Princess Anni-Frid Reuss-Lyngstad, better known as the brunette in Abba.
The charity held its biggest fundraising event of the year last Thursday, a gala performance of the Abba musical Mamma Mia, with tickets selling for up to UKP400 each. Persson was among the guests and his hard line on the Moss issue ensured he was spared embarrassment.
H&M is one of Mentor Sweden's seven 'general partners', each of which contributes UKP100,000 annually to the charity's work. Nina Johansson of Mentor made clear its expectations of how H&M would react to the Moss controversy. She said: 'From Mentor's perspective ... it was the only decision possible. H&M is an image maker and an example to young people.'
Persson himself, writing on the Mentor Foundation home page, says: 'Companies must take on social responsibility. Companies often serve as social models and are moulders of public opinion.'
He has led by example, differing from many of his business contemporaries by refusing to become a tax exile. He has established charitable foundations for healthcare, medical research and drug rehabilitation schemes. He runs H&M - which is often compared to Sweden's other international retailer, Ikea - as a tight ship with few business-class flights, taxis or company mobile phones.
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Didnt burburry and Chanel get rid of her?? now she is also in trouble and will possibly loose her child to like social services bullshit
MissBehavin'_416
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And where's my story in the papers?
lifeisforliving
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MissBehavin'_416 said:
I don't think Bluelight will knock you off their mascot list b/c they spotted you with some coke
Oh yeah, you're invited to the Kate Moss party also, bring your friends :D:D:D
DarthMom
Bluelighter
I figured she had to be high after seeing a picture of her boyfriend, that dude is fugly.
I dont see why it is news though. and the way people get off on the news of her being a lesbian is such a yawn.
every drug using chick I know is bi.
it isn't a shocker.
I dont see why it is news though. and the way people get off on the news of her being a lesbian is such a yawn.
every drug using chick I know is bi.
it isn't a shocker.
Skyline_GTR
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The Sunday Times
25 September 2005
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Bad girl
Kate Moss's lifestyle tells you all you need to know about fame, money and drugs in Britain, says India Knight
Is Kate Moss significantly more debauched than any other very rich young London person? Let’s start off with a bit of anthropological background.
“There was a time when men settled arguments with pistols at dawn,” a well-connected observer of the capital’s super-rich told me last week, “but these days the weapon of choice is a black Amex card, and the venues are clubs like Mo*vida, Umbaba and Boujis.
“Most nights of the week, hedge-funders and suchlike — overworked, emasculated, desperate to prove their mettle — try to make their name in the superclubs by spending outrageous amounts on drink, doing outrageous amounts of drugs, and generally chasing the ultimate high.
“In Pangaea the other week I saw two tables of men competitive-ordering magnums of Cristal, which start at over a grand each. When one of them paid his bill with a Switch card — very uncool — a member of the rival gang shouted, ‘What the f*** is that?’
“And then,” my friend continues, “through this jungle come skinny bitches looking for a free ride, and D-list celebrities looking for the same thing. If I had a tenner for every time X has asked me if I have any drugs on me I’d be a lot richer than him. Everyone is partying like it’s 1988. It’s very American Psycho.
“I was with a guy at a famous London club [a favourite with young royals] the other week who couldn’t be bothered to queue for the bathrooms, so very indiscreetly just cut his lines out on the table. Eventually I made him go to the bathroom, where the attendant tried to stop him going into the stall with a girlfriend. He just threw a couple of £50 notes at the attendant and she said, ‘She’s all yours.’
“It’s all about money. If you’re rich these days then you can do whatever the hell you like. Kate Moss allegedly smoking crack seems pathetic, but when you’re around moneyed people looking for kicks (or, like her, are a moneyed person looking for kicks) and nothing is forbidden, then it’s easy to see how dirty things like crack become exciting. Put it this way, she’s not the only one.”
The most astonishing thing about the whole Kate Moss debacle is that there is one reason and one reason only that explains why the veritable avalanche of stories about Moss’s various impressive addictions didn’t surface earlier. Everyone even tangentially involved in London’s fashion/media/showbiz circles knew for years about the sex, the drugs, and the general wildness, which were euphemistically referred to as “partying”, but nobody blabbed. This is unusual.
Why the reticence? Because Moss is kind, or generous, or altruistic, or sweet to old ladies? Nope. Because she gives quantities of money to unglamorous charities, and is especially munificent towards orphans? No. Because we secretly suspect her of having a mind like a steel trap?
Wrong again. Because she’s beautiful and wears nice clothes. That is the only reason, un-feministically enough. We might as well be primary-school children with a crush.
Kate is really, really pretty, and her prettiness has kept her safe from having to face herself through the prism of a critical media for all these years, like those Hollywood film stars in the 1930s — nympho drug addicts or child-beating weirdoes whose tawdry secrets were a hundred per cent safe because of the sheer might of the studio system.
Ironically enough, keeping Kate “safe” has resulted in her addictions spiralling out of control unchecked, so that the disastrous end result is miles away from the benign original intention — but that’s what happens when, swayed by Kate’s loveliness, the most hardened critic turns into a lovelorn 12-year-old.
I don’t normally get excited about this kind of thing, but I saw her in the street outside the newsagent’s about three weeks ago and I thought about her amazing face all the way home.
Imagine being protected by your looks to that extent. I don’t mean that we aren’t used to pretty people having an easier ride than plain people, because they do. But imagine being absolutely immune from criticism, immune from bad publicity, immune from any kind of nay-saying at all, because of your looks.
Imagine even the most rottweilerish media choosing not to make use of pictures or information that might paint you in a bad light, for years on end . . . because you’re pretty.
It is fairly extraordinary in this day and age — almost baroque in its old-fashionedness, like it being 1665 and you being the king’s favourite and everyone having to be nice to you and curtsey all day long because he likes your curly hair.
Just as there is a kind of lunacy at the centre of that notion, so the story of Kate Moss illustrates the lunacy that’s engulfed us all when it comes to beauty, fame, money and glamour. Our thinking is messed up. The people we admire are messed up, too. We don’t want to know that they’re messed up, so we pretend that model X is naturally skinny and energetic or that such and such an actress is just very fit, rather than having an eating disorder.
We know deep down that we’re deluding ourselves, though. Were we shocked by the news of Kate’s fairly prodigious coke consumption? (Six fat lines in 40 minutes seems an awful lot. I’d be dead, for instance.) Not particularly.
The public may not be entirely in the know, but it isn’t entirely in the dark, either. It can understand that no one is that thin without an eating disorder or a drug habit; and anyway much of Kate’s appeal — for the public as well as fashion houses that hire her — is to do with her hard-living bohemian edge.
Which is why the general reaction to the “supermodel uses cocaine” news was a weary eye-roll rather than astonishment. I was at a London Fashion Week party last week where every second person — journalists, models, comedians, television presenters — was on coke. This is the norm, not the exception.
“Was I shocked? No. Nobody was shocked,” a fashion magazine editor said of Moss last week. “It’s what pop stars do. It’s what they always have done and always will do — drugs, drowning in pools, choking on vomit. It’d be strangely disappointing if they ever stopped. And basically Kate is one of those models that is like a rock star — they don’t come along very often — so she does it too.
“Anyway, she’s a great, great model, and I’d be lying if I told you her rock star side, her rock star antics, worked against her. Until now, that wildness has always worked in her favour. We all work hard and have our mundane lives and escape by reading about people like Kate. It’s a vicarious thrill. She’s practically performing a public service.
“I tell you what did shock me, though — the meanness of whoever it was that filmed her on their mobile. In a private place. We’ve all done things we shouldn’t in private places, and none of us would like them splashed all over the papers.”
The fact that the minutiae of Moss’s lifestyle were common knowledge is what made the faux-outrage of the fashion business so overdone and so silly. In fashion, everyone takes coke (in life, practically everyone takes coke too, from City boys to journalists to your cleaning lady, but fashion people have an especial devotion to it).
Even I have been to dinners when great heaps of it were sitting around in bowls. If it’s not coke, it may be ketamine. Or crystal meth. Or all three. Everyone drinks. Everyone smokes. Everyone is anorexic-skinny and thinks it’s cool. Everyone shags copiously, and sexual orientation is fluid. That’s just the way things are.
They’re not overburdened with morals or brains, the fashion people — but then being burdened with morals or brains is not their job. They’re a designer/model/stylist, not your parish priest.
We’re talking about people who, in the main, move their lips when they read, and spend quite a lot of time standing around with their mouth very slightly open. (A friend of mine recently described seeing Kate Moss and her creepy, decrepit mate Bobby Gillespie standing in the street trying hard to read a newspaper item about themselves; apparently it was like watching toddlers learning phonics).
They’re perhaps not the top choice to look to for moral guidance or tips on living graciously, and when their halo slips you’d have to be a simple soul to find yourself very surprised, or even very cross.
Various people have been slithering out of the woodwork in the past week to express the view that the fashion business isn’t very nice, that it likes to corrupt youth, that there’s a decadence and an emptiness at the middle of it, that it’s not a world any of us should admire.
While this is perfectly true, is there a person left in Britain who needs to be told, who finds the fashion world appealingly wholesome, or who thinks “Ooh, I can’t wait for my 12-year-old daughter to become a top model and go off to London. She’ll have such a lovely life surrounded by well-balanced teetotal people and marvellous, fatherly men”?
Croydon-born Moss has, let us not forget, been working in this environment since she was 14, which is really little more than being a baby. And that is why she deserves our pity, not our manufactured moral indignation or condemnation.
She’s like a slutty out-of-it child, and slutty out-of-it children only get that way because they’ve been abused in one way or another.
Moss isn’t just “the coolest girl in London” or “the most beautiful girl in the world”. She’s a victim — a really deluded victim, the kind that thinks nobody can see the damage. The kind of victim that is so out of it that she can persuade herself of almost anything, that she is cool, that she is beautiful, that she doesn’t have a problem. She may still be the first two things, but when it comes to the third she’s walking wounded.
The other bizarre thing about the coverage of this sorry affair has been the breathless outrage with which stories about Moss’s outré (threesomes) but hardly criminal (consenting adults and all that) sex life have been presented to us. Kate, you may recall, is robustly sexually active. She’s 31, carefree — until last week, at least — beautiful, and has a healthy sex drive. What’s the problem?
Well, the real problem is that she appears to be out of control and that she clearly needs help; but the problem for the media covering this story is that Kate is a mother. She has a daughter, Lila Grace, who is nearly three, by her former beau Jefferson Hack, from whom she is separated. And you aren’t allowed to be a mother and to have sex, even if the sex takes place hundreds of miles away from your child. Even if it takes place on a different continent. It’s just not done.
You can have sex with your husband in order to procreate, but you can’t have the kind of sex Kate has — the kind that leaves you with mussed hair and carpet burns, looking a bit spaced out and dry-mouthed — with various random men.
As if this weren’t bad enough, Kate has also allegedly had sex with her friend Sadie Frost, who is herself a mother of four children. The mothers are getting it on! With five kids between them! Being mothers hasn’t completely destroyed their sense of themselves as sexual beings! It’s the end of the world!
Actually, having said that, the sex stuff is pretty sordid, even if you don’t hold the view that promiscuity is evil. The shenanigans in question don’t recall Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned (the somewhat adolescent theme for Moss’s 30th birthday party at Claridges last year, where there was cake, champagne and an orgy), but rather call to mind those depressing American novels about poor white trash and incest.
All the protagonists in the Moss sex saga are “best friends” or live within a few hundred yards of each other, like cousins in Utah. There’s Frost, who was married to Jude Law, who allegedly also slept with Moss, as well as with one Pearl Lowe, who is married to some musician bloke, with whom Sadie and Jude also both slept. Allegedly. Then Jude slept with his children’s nanny, then Kate allegedly slept with somebody called Davinia Taylor, who normally (surprise) likes to date footballers and lived around the corner from Moss/Frost/Law/everyone else.
In between these particular twosomes, threesomes, foursomes and dozensomes, for all I know, Kate has had many lovers; the above précis is the tip of quite an iceberg. The current boyfriend, Pete Doherty, is a heroin-addicted singer with a penchant for crack and a huge, round, bloated face like a sweaty cheese. (Like sweet little 16-year-olds, he and Moss seem to find themselves and each other deeply poetic and doomed.)
See? The story could quite easily be set on a trailer park, and its protagonists could very well wear vests and tattoos and threaten to batter each other on Jerry Springer.
I don’t think that was quite the idea. I suspect all of this frantic activity started off feeling a bit Studio 54, a bit Seventies, a bit louche and druggy in a fabulously glam (three)way. How unfortunate, then, that it’s all ended up a bit Vicky Pollard instead.
“She needs to dump Doherty,” three people who work in fashion said to me last week in the space of an hour.
“At first the association worked — it was edgy and dangerous and cool,” one added. “Now it just looks scuzzy. It’s sad. I keep imagining them with sick down their fronts, for some reason. But, you know, there’s a business brain underneath that fluffy nest of hair. Well, either that or she has very good advisers. It is entirely possible that she will dump Doherty for career reasons alone. Not a tricky decision — failed pop star with a paunch or another £10m? Even a coked-out supermodel can work that one out.”
There are an awful lot of Kates around — lost girls in their late twenties or early thirties who rely entirely on drink and pharmaceuticals for fun, who put themselves about more than might be wise, who’ve had group sex more often than they care to remember (“After a while the difference between a model and a whore becomes tenuous,” says one party-lover.)
At some imperceptible point these girls go from seeming fun and cool to becoming pitiful. It is appropriate that Moss should have become an iconic mascot for an entire generation, because she is very generation-specific in terms of her story.
That generation — once known as Generation X and now in its early thirties — is perhaps uniquely acquainted with no-strings hedonism. It also has an absolutely extraordinary sense of entitlement: none of them do much but they want everything — money, fame, happiness, time, travel, technology, life on their own terms, lived exactly as they want it.
It is a generation that has never been deprived or wanted for anything, that has never known sacrifice of any kind, that stopped valuing hard work when it realised — via recession, housing crashes, Lloyd’s losses — that there was no such thing as a job for life, so why bother working at all? Why not drift about being “creative” and experiencing things? Especially given they were the first young people to reap the benefits of the explosion in cheap travel. And in cheap drugs.
“When I was young, cocaine was seriously expensive — prohibitively so,” a fashion writer I spoke to last week said. “A bit later, when ecstasy first came along, that wasn’t entirely a bargain either. Now you can buy a supply of both with the spare change in your pocket. London’s drowning in drugs. And Moss’s generation have benefited, if that’s the right word. We thought we were bad. They’re wild.”
Yet for all their carefree self-obsession, they are increasingly frustrated. They haven’t actually achieved much. Many of them work in “the media” — on magazines, in television, in film, in fashion, or on the peripheries of all four. They have non-specific “projects” in the pipeline; these are deemed “really exciting” but seldom come to anything. None of what they do does anybody any good; none of it matters; and eventually this gets them down.
“That’s why we eat organic and try and be green and eco-friendly, and we bang on about ‘authenticity’,” says a style journalist. “It’s our way of trying to bring some meaning to the world, because frankly we are pretty useless. And drugs are a nice way for us to escape all this. Hedonism and debauchery? We have made them into an art form. That, frankly, is our only contribution.”
“Because a line of coke is no more shocking than having a glass of wine,” says another party-loving thirtysomething, “lots of people are falling into a nasty cycle. It makes you stay out later and do things you might not otherwise do. It also means you can’t sleep when you eventually get home. So you take Xanax, which means you’re knocked out at work the next day. What starts out as a bit of Friday night fun can easily turn into a couple of lines to get you through a bad Tuesday.”
This up-all-night, up-for-anything lifestyle is one that Kate Moss, all cheekbones, ballet flats and flying hair, has come to embody. She is hedonism incarnate, debauchery made flesh. Last week, after being dumped by H&M, Chanel (who managed to make her look incredibly common in their ads for Coco Mademoiselle) and Burberry, she apologised profusely and promised to sort herself out.
Whether she manages to do this or not remains to be seen — it’ll take more than a symbolic fortnight in the Priory to put things right. One thing is certain, though: for all the abuse and vilification she has received over the past two weeks, Kate is still Kate, pin-up girl and mascot for an entire generation. She’s still cool. There are still thousands of girls who want to be like her.
Why? Because, despite the alleged £200-a-day habit, and the whispers about crack and heroin, and the photographs and the orgies and the whole “unfit mother” malarkey, Kate Moss is still really pretty, and rich enough to do what she likes. That’s why. And that tells you everything you need to know about fame, money, glamour, drugs, and a great slew of contemporary Britain.
Kate Moss's lifestyle tells you all you need to know about fame, money and drugs in Britain, says India Knight
Is Kate Moss significantly more debauched than any other very rich young London person? Let’s start off with a bit of anthropological background.
“There was a time when men settled arguments with pistols at dawn,” a well-connected observer of the capital’s super-rich told me last week, “but these days the weapon of choice is a black Amex card, and the venues are clubs like Mo*vida, Umbaba and Boujis.
“Most nights of the week, hedge-funders and suchlike — overworked, emasculated, desperate to prove their mettle — try to make their name in the superclubs by spending outrageous amounts on drink, doing outrageous amounts of drugs, and generally chasing the ultimate high.
“In Pangaea the other week I saw two tables of men competitive-ordering magnums of Cristal, which start at over a grand each. When one of them paid his bill with a Switch card — very uncool — a member of the rival gang shouted, ‘What the f*** is that?’
“And then,” my friend continues, “through this jungle come skinny bitches looking for a free ride, and D-list celebrities looking for the same thing. If I had a tenner for every time X has asked me if I have any drugs on me I’d be a lot richer than him. Everyone is partying like it’s 1988. It’s very American Psycho.
“I was with a guy at a famous London club [a favourite with young royals] the other week who couldn’t be bothered to queue for the bathrooms, so very indiscreetly just cut his lines out on the table. Eventually I made him go to the bathroom, where the attendant tried to stop him going into the stall with a girlfriend. He just threw a couple of £50 notes at the attendant and she said, ‘She’s all yours.’
“It’s all about money. If you’re rich these days then you can do whatever the hell you like. Kate Moss allegedly smoking crack seems pathetic, but when you’re around moneyed people looking for kicks (or, like her, are a moneyed person looking for kicks) and nothing is forbidden, then it’s easy to see how dirty things like crack become exciting. Put it this way, she’s not the only one.”
The most astonishing thing about the whole Kate Moss debacle is that there is one reason and one reason only that explains why the veritable avalanche of stories about Moss’s various impressive addictions didn’t surface earlier. Everyone even tangentially involved in London’s fashion/media/showbiz circles knew for years about the sex, the drugs, and the general wildness, which were euphemistically referred to as “partying”, but nobody blabbed. This is unusual.
Why the reticence? Because Moss is kind, or generous, or altruistic, or sweet to old ladies? Nope. Because she gives quantities of money to unglamorous charities, and is especially munificent towards orphans? No. Because we secretly suspect her of having a mind like a steel trap?
Wrong again. Because she’s beautiful and wears nice clothes. That is the only reason, un-feministically enough. We might as well be primary-school children with a crush.
Kate is really, really pretty, and her prettiness has kept her safe from having to face herself through the prism of a critical media for all these years, like those Hollywood film stars in the 1930s — nympho drug addicts or child-beating weirdoes whose tawdry secrets were a hundred per cent safe because of the sheer might of the studio system.
Ironically enough, keeping Kate “safe” has resulted in her addictions spiralling out of control unchecked, so that the disastrous end result is miles away from the benign original intention — but that’s what happens when, swayed by Kate’s loveliness, the most hardened critic turns into a lovelorn 12-year-old.
I don’t normally get excited about this kind of thing, but I saw her in the street outside the newsagent’s about three weeks ago and I thought about her amazing face all the way home.
Imagine being protected by your looks to that extent. I don’t mean that we aren’t used to pretty people having an easier ride than plain people, because they do. But imagine being absolutely immune from criticism, immune from bad publicity, immune from any kind of nay-saying at all, because of your looks.
Imagine even the most rottweilerish media choosing not to make use of pictures or information that might paint you in a bad light, for years on end . . . because you’re pretty.
It is fairly extraordinary in this day and age — almost baroque in its old-fashionedness, like it being 1665 and you being the king’s favourite and everyone having to be nice to you and curtsey all day long because he likes your curly hair.
Just as there is a kind of lunacy at the centre of that notion, so the story of Kate Moss illustrates the lunacy that’s engulfed us all when it comes to beauty, fame, money and glamour. Our thinking is messed up. The people we admire are messed up, too. We don’t want to know that they’re messed up, so we pretend that model X is naturally skinny and energetic or that such and such an actress is just very fit, rather than having an eating disorder.
We know deep down that we’re deluding ourselves, though. Were we shocked by the news of Kate’s fairly prodigious coke consumption? (Six fat lines in 40 minutes seems an awful lot. I’d be dead, for instance.) Not particularly.
The public may not be entirely in the know, but it isn’t entirely in the dark, either. It can understand that no one is that thin without an eating disorder or a drug habit; and anyway much of Kate’s appeal — for the public as well as fashion houses that hire her — is to do with her hard-living bohemian edge.
Which is why the general reaction to the “supermodel uses cocaine” news was a weary eye-roll rather than astonishment. I was at a London Fashion Week party last week where every second person — journalists, models, comedians, television presenters — was on coke. This is the norm, not the exception.
“Was I shocked? No. Nobody was shocked,” a fashion magazine editor said of Moss last week. “It’s what pop stars do. It’s what they always have done and always will do — drugs, drowning in pools, choking on vomit. It’d be strangely disappointing if they ever stopped. And basically Kate is one of those models that is like a rock star — they don’t come along very often — so she does it too.
“Anyway, she’s a great, great model, and I’d be lying if I told you her rock star side, her rock star antics, worked against her. Until now, that wildness has always worked in her favour. We all work hard and have our mundane lives and escape by reading about people like Kate. It’s a vicarious thrill. She’s practically performing a public service.
“I tell you what did shock me, though — the meanness of whoever it was that filmed her on their mobile. In a private place. We’ve all done things we shouldn’t in private places, and none of us would like them splashed all over the papers.”
The fact that the minutiae of Moss’s lifestyle were common knowledge is what made the faux-outrage of the fashion business so overdone and so silly. In fashion, everyone takes coke (in life, practically everyone takes coke too, from City boys to journalists to your cleaning lady, but fashion people have an especial devotion to it).
Even I have been to dinners when great heaps of it were sitting around in bowls. If it’s not coke, it may be ketamine. Or crystal meth. Or all three. Everyone drinks. Everyone smokes. Everyone is anorexic-skinny and thinks it’s cool. Everyone shags copiously, and sexual orientation is fluid. That’s just the way things are.
They’re not overburdened with morals or brains, the fashion people — but then being burdened with morals or brains is not their job. They’re a designer/model/stylist, not your parish priest.
We’re talking about people who, in the main, move their lips when they read, and spend quite a lot of time standing around with their mouth very slightly open. (A friend of mine recently described seeing Kate Moss and her creepy, decrepit mate Bobby Gillespie standing in the street trying hard to read a newspaper item about themselves; apparently it was like watching toddlers learning phonics).
They’re perhaps not the top choice to look to for moral guidance or tips on living graciously, and when their halo slips you’d have to be a simple soul to find yourself very surprised, or even very cross.
Various people have been slithering out of the woodwork in the past week to express the view that the fashion business isn’t very nice, that it likes to corrupt youth, that there’s a decadence and an emptiness at the middle of it, that it’s not a world any of us should admire.
While this is perfectly true, is there a person left in Britain who needs to be told, who finds the fashion world appealingly wholesome, or who thinks “Ooh, I can’t wait for my 12-year-old daughter to become a top model and go off to London. She’ll have such a lovely life surrounded by well-balanced teetotal people and marvellous, fatherly men”?
Croydon-born Moss has, let us not forget, been working in this environment since she was 14, which is really little more than being a baby. And that is why she deserves our pity, not our manufactured moral indignation or condemnation.
She’s like a slutty out-of-it child, and slutty out-of-it children only get that way because they’ve been abused in one way or another.
Moss isn’t just “the coolest girl in London” or “the most beautiful girl in the world”. She’s a victim — a really deluded victim, the kind that thinks nobody can see the damage. The kind of victim that is so out of it that she can persuade herself of almost anything, that she is cool, that she is beautiful, that she doesn’t have a problem. She may still be the first two things, but when it comes to the third she’s walking wounded.
The other bizarre thing about the coverage of this sorry affair has been the breathless outrage with which stories about Moss’s outré (threesomes) but hardly criminal (consenting adults and all that) sex life have been presented to us. Kate, you may recall, is robustly sexually active. She’s 31, carefree — until last week, at least — beautiful, and has a healthy sex drive. What’s the problem?
Well, the real problem is that she appears to be out of control and that she clearly needs help; but the problem for the media covering this story is that Kate is a mother. She has a daughter, Lila Grace, who is nearly three, by her former beau Jefferson Hack, from whom she is separated. And you aren’t allowed to be a mother and to have sex, even if the sex takes place hundreds of miles away from your child. Even if it takes place on a different continent. It’s just not done.
You can have sex with your husband in order to procreate, but you can’t have the kind of sex Kate has — the kind that leaves you with mussed hair and carpet burns, looking a bit spaced out and dry-mouthed — with various random men.
As if this weren’t bad enough, Kate has also allegedly had sex with her friend Sadie Frost, who is herself a mother of four children. The mothers are getting it on! With five kids between them! Being mothers hasn’t completely destroyed their sense of themselves as sexual beings! It’s the end of the world!
Actually, having said that, the sex stuff is pretty sordid, even if you don’t hold the view that promiscuity is evil. The shenanigans in question don’t recall Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned (the somewhat adolescent theme for Moss’s 30th birthday party at Claridges last year, where there was cake, champagne and an orgy), but rather call to mind those depressing American novels about poor white trash and incest.
All the protagonists in the Moss sex saga are “best friends” or live within a few hundred yards of each other, like cousins in Utah. There’s Frost, who was married to Jude Law, who allegedly also slept with Moss, as well as with one Pearl Lowe, who is married to some musician bloke, with whom Sadie and Jude also both slept. Allegedly. Then Jude slept with his children’s nanny, then Kate allegedly slept with somebody called Davinia Taylor, who normally (surprise) likes to date footballers and lived around the corner from Moss/Frost/Law/everyone else.
In between these particular twosomes, threesomes, foursomes and dozensomes, for all I know, Kate has had many lovers; the above précis is the tip of quite an iceberg. The current boyfriend, Pete Doherty, is a heroin-addicted singer with a penchant for crack and a huge, round, bloated face like a sweaty cheese. (Like sweet little 16-year-olds, he and Moss seem to find themselves and each other deeply poetic and doomed.)
See? The story could quite easily be set on a trailer park, and its protagonists could very well wear vests and tattoos and threaten to batter each other on Jerry Springer.
I don’t think that was quite the idea. I suspect all of this frantic activity started off feeling a bit Studio 54, a bit Seventies, a bit louche and druggy in a fabulously glam (three)way. How unfortunate, then, that it’s all ended up a bit Vicky Pollard instead.
“She needs to dump Doherty,” three people who work in fashion said to me last week in the space of an hour.
“At first the association worked — it was edgy and dangerous and cool,” one added. “Now it just looks scuzzy. It’s sad. I keep imagining them with sick down their fronts, for some reason. But, you know, there’s a business brain underneath that fluffy nest of hair. Well, either that or she has very good advisers. It is entirely possible that she will dump Doherty for career reasons alone. Not a tricky decision — failed pop star with a paunch or another £10m? Even a coked-out supermodel can work that one out.”
There are an awful lot of Kates around — lost girls in their late twenties or early thirties who rely entirely on drink and pharmaceuticals for fun, who put themselves about more than might be wise, who’ve had group sex more often than they care to remember (“After a while the difference between a model and a whore becomes tenuous,” says one party-lover.)
At some imperceptible point these girls go from seeming fun and cool to becoming pitiful. It is appropriate that Moss should have become an iconic mascot for an entire generation, because she is very generation-specific in terms of her story.
That generation — once known as Generation X and now in its early thirties — is perhaps uniquely acquainted with no-strings hedonism. It also has an absolutely extraordinary sense of entitlement: none of them do much but they want everything — money, fame, happiness, time, travel, technology, life on their own terms, lived exactly as they want it.
It is a generation that has never been deprived or wanted for anything, that has never known sacrifice of any kind, that stopped valuing hard work when it realised — via recession, housing crashes, Lloyd’s losses — that there was no such thing as a job for life, so why bother working at all? Why not drift about being “creative” and experiencing things? Especially given they were the first young people to reap the benefits of the explosion in cheap travel. And in cheap drugs.
“When I was young, cocaine was seriously expensive — prohibitively so,” a fashion writer I spoke to last week said. “A bit later, when ecstasy first came along, that wasn’t entirely a bargain either. Now you can buy a supply of both with the spare change in your pocket. London’s drowning in drugs. And Moss’s generation have benefited, if that’s the right word. We thought we were bad. They’re wild.”
Yet for all their carefree self-obsession, they are increasingly frustrated. They haven’t actually achieved much. Many of them work in “the media” — on magazines, in television, in film, in fashion, or on the peripheries of all four. They have non-specific “projects” in the pipeline; these are deemed “really exciting” but seldom come to anything. None of what they do does anybody any good; none of it matters; and eventually this gets them down.
“That’s why we eat organic and try and be green and eco-friendly, and we bang on about ‘authenticity’,” says a style journalist. “It’s our way of trying to bring some meaning to the world, because frankly we are pretty useless. And drugs are a nice way for us to escape all this. Hedonism and debauchery? We have made them into an art form. That, frankly, is our only contribution.”
“Because a line of coke is no more shocking than having a glass of wine,” says another party-loving thirtysomething, “lots of people are falling into a nasty cycle. It makes you stay out later and do things you might not otherwise do. It also means you can’t sleep when you eventually get home. So you take Xanax, which means you’re knocked out at work the next day. What starts out as a bit of Friday night fun can easily turn into a couple of lines to get you through a bad Tuesday.”
This up-all-night, up-for-anything lifestyle is one that Kate Moss, all cheekbones, ballet flats and flying hair, has come to embody. She is hedonism incarnate, debauchery made flesh. Last week, after being dumped by H&M, Chanel (who managed to make her look incredibly common in their ads for Coco Mademoiselle) and Burberry, she apologised profusely and promised to sort herself out.
Whether she manages to do this or not remains to be seen — it’ll take more than a symbolic fortnight in the Priory to put things right. One thing is certain, though: for all the abuse and vilification she has received over the past two weeks, Kate is still Kate, pin-up girl and mascot for an entire generation. She’s still cool. There are still thousands of girls who want to be like her.
Why? Because, despite the alleged £200-a-day habit, and the whispers about crack and heroin, and the photographs and the orgies and the whole “unfit mother” malarkey, Kate Moss is still really pretty, and rich enough to do what she likes. That’s why. And that tells you everything you need to know about fame, money, glamour, drugs, and a great slew of contemporary Britain.
Skyline_GTR
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BBC News
1 October 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4299798.stm
1 October 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4299798.stm
Studio searched over Moss claims
Detectives have searched a recording studio where model Kate Moss is alleged to have snorted cocaine, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
Police visited the west London studio on Thursday but a spokeswoman declined to elaborate on details of the search.
Officers are also examining items handed to them by the Daily Mirror - the paper first reported the claims.
The model's agent has said she was "absolutely devastated" by the recent drug-taking allegations.
Moss released a statement after the claims were reported, admitting "full responsibility" for her actions and saying she was taking steps to address her problems.
It has been reported that the 31-year-old would check into the Meadows rehab clinic in Arizona.
Lucrative contracts
The police spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that officers from the specialist crime directorate executed a section eight search warrant on 29 September at an address in London, W4, as part of an ongoing inquiry."
The model has lost lucrative contracts with Chanel, H&M and Burberry after the Mirror first reported the claims about drug taking.
An investigation into those allegations was ordered personally by Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair.
Detectives have searched a recording studio where model Kate Moss is alleged to have snorted cocaine, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
Police visited the west London studio on Thursday but a spokeswoman declined to elaborate on details of the search.
Officers are also examining items handed to them by the Daily Mirror - the paper first reported the claims.
The model's agent has said she was "absolutely devastated" by the recent drug-taking allegations.
Moss released a statement after the claims were reported, admitting "full responsibility" for her actions and saying she was taking steps to address her problems.
It has been reported that the 31-year-old would check into the Meadows rehab clinic in Arizona.
Lucrative contracts
The police spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that officers from the specialist crime directorate executed a section eight search warrant on 29 September at an address in London, W4, as part of an ongoing inquiry."
The model has lost lucrative contracts with Chanel, H&M and Burberry after the Mirror first reported the claims about drug taking.
An investigation into those allegations was ordered personally by Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair.
Skyline_GTR
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What a farce.. it's obvious the police aren't particularly bothered about wasting time & money on an investigation for such a minor crime, and realise there's fuck all chance of a successful prosecution unless she's stupid enough to confess to them, because for two weeks they haven't done anything. Then after all the outrage in the tabloid press that they haven't done anything, they're now having to make a show of investigating it..
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hoptis said:
i would like nothin more than to "get behind her" as she backs that ass up!
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Call me crazy, but these stories are so hot!! The threesomes, the excess, the tabloids are jealous and we all know that they should not be reporting in glass houses, wink
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Supermodel Kate Moss checks out of rehab clinic
Thu Oct 27, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermodel Kate Moss, whose career began to unravel when pictures were published apparently showing her snorting large quantities of cocaine, has left a drug rehabilitation center, her agent said on Thursday.
The 31-year-old hit the headlines last month when British tabloid the Daily Mirror published photographs allegedly showing her taking the drug, prompting some fashion labels to cancel contracts and future projects with Moss.
A spokesperson for her London model agency, Storm, confirmed she had left the Meadows Clinic in the United States earlier this week and was with friends there before returning to work.
She checked into the center in September.
"Kate is in excellent spirits and looking forward to getting back to work. She would like to thank everyone for their messages of support as they have played a major part in helping her," the spokesperson said.
The London-born model will be reunited with her three-year-old daughter Lila in the next few days.
In 1998, Moss checked into London's Priory Clinic suffering from "exhaustion" and announced the following year that she had spent the previous decade modeling "drunk."
Moss has not admitted to the recent allegations made against her, although she issued a short statement shortly after the scandal broke in which she apologized to people she let down.
The allegations prompted British retailer Burberry and Swedish-based fashion house Hennes and Mauritz to sever ties with one of the most famous faces in fashion, raising doubts over whether she could continue a successful modeling career.
France's Chanel also said it would not renew her contract when it expired.
But her backers say despite setbacks Moss remained a bankable star.
Storm said her modeling commitments were expected to take her to Los Angeles, Paris and New York over the coming months, and she was due to feature in the Pirelli calendar, released next month.
Moss may be questioned by British police when she next returns to the country.
She was discovered by a modeling agency as a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and her waifish good looks have graced the covers of countless magazines.
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Thu Oct 27, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermodel Kate Moss, whose career began to unravel when pictures were published apparently showing her snorting large quantities of cocaine, has left a drug rehabilitation center, her agent said on Thursday.
The 31-year-old hit the headlines last month when British tabloid the Daily Mirror published photographs allegedly showing her taking the drug, prompting some fashion labels to cancel contracts and future projects with Moss.
A spokesperson for her London model agency, Storm, confirmed she had left the Meadows Clinic in the United States earlier this week and was with friends there before returning to work.
She checked into the center in September.
"Kate is in excellent spirits and looking forward to getting back to work. She would like to thank everyone for their messages of support as they have played a major part in helping her," the spokesperson said.
The London-born model will be reunited with her three-year-old daughter Lila in the next few days.
In 1998, Moss checked into London's Priory Clinic suffering from "exhaustion" and announced the following year that she had spent the previous decade modeling "drunk."
Moss has not admitted to the recent allegations made against her, although she issued a short statement shortly after the scandal broke in which she apologized to people she let down.
The allegations prompted British retailer Burberry and Swedish-based fashion house Hennes and Mauritz to sever ties with one of the most famous faces in fashion, raising doubts over whether she could continue a successful modeling career.
France's Chanel also said it would not renew her contract when it expired.
But her backers say despite setbacks Moss remained a bankable star.
Storm said her modeling commitments were expected to take her to Los Angeles, Paris and New York over the coming months, and she was due to feature in the Pirelli calendar, released next month.
Moss may be questioned by British police when she next returns to the country.
She was discovered by a modeling agency as a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and her waifish good looks have graced the covers of countless magazines.
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Johnny depp is the fucking MAN. :D Mmmm - doing a few lines off kate mosses body sure sounds like fuuuun though, I don't think I could resist. 
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fruitfly said:
'Tricked' her into taking a line ? Heh, I wish more people would trick ME into taking a line!
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^ Lol, me too!
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Moss stays in America to avoid police quiz
by BEN TAYLOR and NICOLE LAMPERT, Daily Mail
08:07am 12th December 2005
For three months she has successfully avoided awkward questions about the drug abuse claims which threatened to wreck her career.
Now it has emerged that Kate Moss still has no formal plans to return to Britain to face the Scotland Yard inquiry into claims that she snorted 'line after line' of cocaine.
Friends had previously insisted that she would be back in the country by Christmas.
But Miss Moss, who has signed a number of lucrative contracts since the scandal broke, is now likely to stay out of the country over the festive season.
Her decision not to co-operate with the investigation is thought to have been prompted by fears of embarrassing publicity.
Police plan to arrest and interview the 31-year-old under caution in the presence of a solicitor. If she admits taking the drug she is likely to escape with a caution. But that would leave her with a criminal record, making it difficult to find work abroad, particularly in the U.S.
A spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Unit said: "If someone has just been arrested and the charges are dropped, they will be okay. But once there is a conviction, that person's status changes. In a word, they will not be allowed in."
Miss Moss, who has a three-year-old daughter, is renting a house in America where she is filming an advert for Virgin Mobile as part of a £1.2million deal.
Since the scandal broke in September, she has spent a period in drug rehabilitation at the Meadows Clinic in Arizona. But she has continued to work and has been pictured modelling in Spain and the Caribbean.
Although she was ditched by a number of fashion houses after the allegations, her advisers confidently predict her new contracts will maintain her multimillionaire lifestyle.
Detectives want to talk to her because they feel she can provide useful information about who is supplying the showbusiness parties where cocaine abuse is rife.
Officers believe young women looking for fame and fortune are being offered free cocaine by good-looking men in their twenties to get them hooked.
Officers, who are being supervised by Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, may even now start re-examining 'non suspicious' drug deaths of young women in London to see if they lead back to the same gangs.
A Yard source said: "The Moss investigation has opened a real can of worms. While everyone has always known that the showbusiness world and drugs go together, the sheer extent of the criminal infiltration is worrying."
Police have raided the recording studios in Chiswick, West London, where the cocaine snorting sessions allegedly took place. A dossier of evidence has been handed over by the Daily Mirror, which published the pictures, but police do not believe theories that Miss Moss was set up and think she 'knew what she was doing'.
A source close to the model said last night: "Although her plan has always been to return to Britain for Christmas, if work commitments mean she needs to stay abroad, she will. She has been really busy in America and has been renting a house there.
"The police have certainly not said that they need to see her."
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by BEN TAYLOR and NICOLE LAMPERT, Daily Mail
08:07am 12th December 2005
For three months she has successfully avoided awkward questions about the drug abuse claims which threatened to wreck her career.
Now it has emerged that Kate Moss still has no formal plans to return to Britain to face the Scotland Yard inquiry into claims that she snorted 'line after line' of cocaine.
Friends had previously insisted that she would be back in the country by Christmas.
But Miss Moss, who has signed a number of lucrative contracts since the scandal broke, is now likely to stay out of the country over the festive season.
Her decision not to co-operate with the investigation is thought to have been prompted by fears of embarrassing publicity.
Police plan to arrest and interview the 31-year-old under caution in the presence of a solicitor. If she admits taking the drug she is likely to escape with a caution. But that would leave her with a criminal record, making it difficult to find work abroad, particularly in the U.S.
A spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Unit said: "If someone has just been arrested and the charges are dropped, they will be okay. But once there is a conviction, that person's status changes. In a word, they will not be allowed in."
Miss Moss, who has a three-year-old daughter, is renting a house in America where she is filming an advert for Virgin Mobile as part of a £1.2million deal.
Since the scandal broke in September, she has spent a period in drug rehabilitation at the Meadows Clinic in Arizona. But she has continued to work and has been pictured modelling in Spain and the Caribbean.
Although she was ditched by a number of fashion houses after the allegations, her advisers confidently predict her new contracts will maintain her multimillionaire lifestyle.
Detectives want to talk to her because they feel she can provide useful information about who is supplying the showbusiness parties where cocaine abuse is rife.
Officers believe young women looking for fame and fortune are being offered free cocaine by good-looking men in their twenties to get them hooked.
Officers, who are being supervised by Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, may even now start re-examining 'non suspicious' drug deaths of young women in London to see if they lead back to the same gangs.
A Yard source said: "The Moss investigation has opened a real can of worms. While everyone has always known that the showbusiness world and drugs go together, the sheer extent of the criminal infiltration is worrying."
Police have raided the recording studios in Chiswick, West London, where the cocaine snorting sessions allegedly took place. A dossier of evidence has been handed over by the Daily Mirror, which published the pictures, but police do not believe theories that Miss Moss was set up and think she 'knew what she was doing'.
A source close to the model said last night: "Although her plan has always been to return to Britain for Christmas, if work commitments mean she needs to stay abroad, she will. She has been really busy in America and has been renting a house there.
"The police have certainly not said that they need to see her."
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