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February 4, 2008

NoW pays out over Kate Moss ‘orgy’ claims

By Press Gazette

The News of the World has apologised and is paying damages to model Kate Moss after running a story which wrongly claimed that she was involved in an orgy at her birthday party.

The newspaper printed an apology this week, which read: ‘We would like to apologise to Kate Moss and to her family and friends for any offence or distress caused by our article last week relating to alleged events at her 34th birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel.

‘The News of the World was offered detailed information from a normally reliable source which we now accept was untrue.

‘We regret publication of that material in the Rav column and have agreed to pay Kate a sum in damages.”

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