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Moss Can't Keep Lid on Coke Scandal
Looks like Kate Moss will have to model a new strategy in a British court case.
A British judge on Friday rejected the catwalker's bid to prevent information about her recent drug scandal allegations from being used against her in an upcoming libel trial.
In January of last year, U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 aired The Truth About Kate Moss, which claimed the supermodel snorted such copious amounts of cocaine that she fell into a coma in 2001.
The program said that Moss inhaled "line after line" of the drug at a charity fashion event in Barcelona before passing out in her hotel room. It's the same claim that first appeared in Britain's Daily Mirror and resulted in a legal offensive from Moss. The Mirror wound up on the losing end of the lawsuit last July, but two months later the paper got its revenge, publishing still images from hidden-camera footage of Moss seemingly using cocaine in a recording studio. Those photos created a maelstrom of bad PR for Moss and resulted in an ongoing police investigation.
Matthew Nicklin, an attorney for Channel 5, argued that the network should be able to use in its defense the Daily Mirror photos of Moss, as well as the public apology she issued last September acknowledging she was taking steps to address her "personal issues."
Moss' lawyer, David Sherborne, countered by saying that Channel 5's assertion that Moss had taken a "vast" quantity of cocaine in Barcelona in 2001 and had to be revived from a drug-induced coma was "wholly untrue and seriously defamatory."
But Nicklin said that the real issue in the case was whether or not the cover girl had taken cocaine, "not the venue of her activities or even when she did it." (Unlike the United States, where news media are given the benefit of the doubt, libel laws in Great Britain are much more celebrity-friendly and weighted in favor of the plaintiff.)
He claims the broadcaster will defend its claims by taking the position that Moss "was a serious cocaine abuser."
Justice David Eady agreed and during a hearing Friday gave the go-ahead for Channel 5 lawyers to use the published photos and allegations against Moss in defense of their TV special.
Earlier this week, Moss, 32, voluntarily met with London's Metropolitan Police for questioning in the recording-studio incident.
The supermodel met with cops on Tuesday "under caution"--meaning anything she said could be used during trials in the future--to discuss the footage taken of her and then boyfriend Pete Doherty purportedly snorting drugs. Police said there is no timetable on whether Moss will be criminally charged.
On Thursday, Moss returned to the U.S., where she has been living since the scandal broke.
The Channel 5 trial is expected to go to trial this fall--sometime between October and December.
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