Moss faces police inquiry
2005-09-21 07:13
London - Police in London said on Wednesday they will look into allegations that British supermodel Kate Moss has taken cocaine, after she was dropped from a planned ad campaign by global fashion chain H&M.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur "has reviewed the matter and has asked officers from the specialist crime directorate to look at reports, as highlighted in a national newspaper".
She would not say whether Moss, 31, who was alleged in the Daily Mirror newspaper last week to have snorted cocaine in a west London studio where her rock star lover Pete Doherty was recording, would be questioned.
Doherty, 26, who fronts a band called Babyshambles after being drummed out of his first group The Libertines, is a self-confessed drug addict.
In a statement from its Stockholm head office, H&M said on Tuesday it was dropping Moss from a pre-Christmas advertising campaign "after having evaluated the situation".
The move was a turnaround from H&M's announcement on Saturday that it would stand by Moss, one of the best-known and highest-earning faces in the global modelling industry.
Moss has refused to comment on the allegations. In previous interviews she has confessed to using drugs in the past, but said she did not do so any longer.
In 1998, the model - who features in ads for Chanel, Christian Dior, Burberry and Rimmel cosmetics - spent time in Britain's exclusive Priory detox clinic after admitting that her party-centred lifestyle had taken its toll.
She has a two-year-old daughter, Lila Grace, with her ex-partner, magazine publisher Jefferson Hack.
- SAPA