Inside Kate Moss and Johnny Depp’s wild, debauched romance
Kate Moss has never had a problem talking about Johnny Depp.
In the mid-1990s, the supermodel was asked by a British morning TV host about how romantic her then-boyfriend was — and revealed that Depp liked to surprise her with parties and presents.
“Oh go on, what sort of presents?” asked “The Big Breakfast” host Gaby Roslin.
“He gave me a diamond necklace which he had hidden down the crack of his arse!” Moss chirped.
Years later, she again reminisced about the jewelry. “He said, ‘Come on, we’re going to the Russian Tea Room for dinner’ … as we were going out the door, he said, ‘Kate, I’ve got something on my arse, you have to look, I don’t know what it is, will you have a look for me,’” she told Nick Knight’s Fashion Film. “I’d only known him like three months! I put my hand down the back of his trousers and pulled out this f–king Tiffany necklace. It was nice not to find a boil. That necklace is f–king class…”
It’s probably not a story Moss will repeat on Wednesday, when she appears via video to testify on Depp’s behalf in his defamation court case about his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Instead, Moss, 48, is expected to explain how Depp once swept her up and carried her after she slipped down stairs, according to sources.
Moss was drawn into the legal drama when Heard, 36, told the jury about a March 2015 fight during which she punched Depp, 58, in the face out of fear he was going to shove her sister, Whitney Henriquez, down a staircase.
The “Aquaman” actress said Henriquez was near a staircase “in the line of fire … trying to get Johnny to stop,” which reminded her of a rumored incident between Moss and Depp.
“[Whitney’s] back was to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her,” Heard testified. “I don’t hesitate, I don’t wait — I just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and stairs.”
By mentioning the alleged misconduct, Heard inadvertently allowed Depp’s lawyers to call the model as a witness.
A source familiar with the case told The Post that Moss will recount an incident that sounds more romantic than traumatic, when she “was walking down some stairs in Jamaica. She was wearing flip-flops and she slipped on the last two stairs. Johnny caught her and tended to her.”
Depp and Moss were the iconic ’90s couple. Decadent and volatile, their passionate romance — which spanned 1994 to 1997 — took them from London to Hollywood to Cannes, sometimes leaving chaos in their wake.
The actor, who found fame on TV series “21 Jump Street,” was 31, and Moss was 20 when they met. “I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together,” the model has said.
Fashion writer and former Vanity Fair columnist George Wayne introduced them in 1994 “at Cafe Tabac in the East Village,” he posted on Instagram. “She strolled in with Naomi at what was our favorite hangout back then … I took her hand and immediately took her to Johnny’s table in the middle of the restaurant. ‘Johnny, this is Kate — Kate, meet Johnny.’ I didn’t expect when I did that they would go on to trash five-star hotel rooms across the globe.”
Depp has claimed that he and Moss had sex in every single one of the 63 rooms of the legendary Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, and he reportedly filled a tub with champagne at London’s Portobello Hotel for them to bathe in.
But their passionate rows — with rumors of screaming matches — were legendary.
In September 1994, police were called to the Upper East Side’s Mark Hotel, where they found Moss and a “possibly intoxicated” Depp in a trashed presidential suite after an alleged fight.
Depp blamed the mess on an armadillo that he said was hiding in the closet. No such creature was found.
A criminal court judge dismissed the charge against Depp on the condition that he stay out of trouble for six months. The actor paid The Mark more than $2,000 for damages.
Although the couple called it quits in 1997 after three years and a rumored engagement, they appeared together briefly at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1998, where Moss was reprimanded for wearing her bikini in the hallways of the legendary Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. In response, she reportedly trashed her hotel room and was banned from setting foot in the place for life.
Perhaps she was still stewing over Depp, who has taken responsibility for their…
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