Score one for Kate Moss, whose life has drastically improved since her notorious cocaine shame, but dammit, folks, get your scandals straight. Of course, we’re speaking of News Of The World and their unsubstantiated orgy story, which unequivocally stated that Moss had enjoyed a foursome romp at her 34th birthday party. Now, NOTW retracts the article it pulled out of its ass:

SORRY KATE

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.

Pictured above, along with Moss, is Jamie Hince, the ubiquitous chain-smoking vegan guitarist of The Kills and six-month steady boyfriend of Moss. Much to Kate’s delight, no doubt, her pal Kelly Osbourne is decidedly unimpressed: “I call Jamie the grumpy old man because he likes a good moan - but he and Kate do work well together.” Yes, well. The Osbourne family isn’t exactly full of positive male role models, so we cannot blame Kelly for her rather nonexistent frame of reference.

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