Kate Moss and Johnny Depp were one of showbiz’s most beautiful couples.
Their passionate romance took them from London to Hollywood to Cannes, sometimes leaving
chaos in their wake.
When they broke up, Johnny took responsibility for it.
15 years later, Kate said she spent “years and years crying.”
And now, the supermodel was asked to testify in the infamous defamation trial.
Today, we’re taking a look back at the high-profile romance between the iconic couple.
At the time, after being scouted at the age of just 14, Kate Moss had become one of the
biggest supermodels in the world, a Vogue star who would go on to grace more covers
of the British magazine than anyone else in history.
Johnny Depp was, well, Johnny Depp — star of 21 Jump Street, Edward Scissorhands and
What's Eating Gilbert Grape; the actor who never fell back on his looks and always pushed
for eccentric characters.
Fashion writer and former Vanity Fair columnist George Wayne introduced them in 1994 “at
Café 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.’”
He had no idea that they would then become the IT couple for years to come, “destroying
hotel rooms across the globe during their still unforgettable union!”
As Kate would later say, she knew from the first moment they talked that they were going
to be together.
“I’ve never had that before.
That’s sweet,” Moss added.
Kate 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 Johnny liked to surprise her with parties
and presents.
“Oh, go on, what sort of presents?” asked the host.
“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, ‘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***ing Tiffany necklace.
It was nice not to find a boil.
That necklace is f***ing class ….” The media couldn’t get enough of the lovebirds,
who took their romance from London to France and LA to New York, creating a string of headlines
along the way.
According to People, Depp and Moss couldn’t take their “hands, lips, mouths, or legs
off each other.”
Just months after they met, police were called to New York’s Mark Hotel, where they found
the couple’s presidential suite trashed following an alleged argument.
According to police, Moss was found unharmed inside the room, and Depp was “in a state
of possible intoxication”.
The actor blamed the mess on an armadillo he said was hiding in the closet.
However, no such creature was found.
He was arrested for alleged criminal mischief, but the charges against the actor were dropped
on the condition that he’ll stay out of trouble for six months and pay almost $10000
for the damages.
“It has absolutely nothing to do with Kate,” he later said of the incident.
“You want to hear the honest truth about what happened in that hotel?
There was a cockroach in that room the size of a baseball, and I was chasing it, and I
missed.”
In January 1995, Depp threw Moss a 21st birthday party at the Viper Room.
He gave her a stunning John Galliano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_RfTzHFLA&ab_channel=Vogue 0.40) white slip dress to wear – and it
was an item of clothing she cherished for a long time.
“It has travelled with me everywhere over the years,” the supermodel once told British
Vogue.
“It’s the most perfect dress.”
Their passionate rows were legendary.
Depp has claimed that he and Moss had sex in every single one of the 63 rooms of the
legendary Chateau Marmont (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFoq2kJrE2c&ab_channel=Timeline-WorldHistoryDocumentaries 15.08) in West Hollywood, Los Angeles.
He also reportedly filled a tub with champagne at London’s Portobello Hotel for them to
bathe in.
They were pictured together at high-profile events including the Golden Globe Awards,
the Cannes Film Festival, and premieres for the actor's films including Donnie Brasco
and Don Juan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStsj8b1rxs&ab_channel=AmericanPronunciationGuide 0.11) DeMarco.
In 1996, they were photographed on holiday with Noel Gallagher (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYQnpDT1UM&ab_channel=GQ
0.02) and his then wife Meg Matthews in the Caribbean.
Moss reportedly appeared on a version of Oasis single Fade Away and Don't Go Away, and on
the band's third album Be Here Now, playing tambourine.
Depp is also credited for playing slide guitar on Fade In-Out.
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.
Moss was reprimanded there for wearing her bikini in the hallways of a legendary hotel.
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 split.
The actor has blamed stupidity, his work, and his youth for their break.
“I have never got that emotional over a woman before,” he said in an interview with
Hello magazine in 1998.
“I have been so stupid because we had so much going for our relationship.
I’m the one who has to take responsibility for what happened — I was difficult to get
on with, I let my work get in the way, and I didn’t give her the attention I should
have done,” he said.
“Sure, I should care about my movies, but when I get home, I should try to leave that
stuff behind.
I couldn’t do that, and I was horrific to live with.
Trust me, I’m a total moron at times.”
Meanwhile, it was no secret Moss struggled with the breakup, telling Vanity Fair in 2012
that she grieved the relationship for many years.
“I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
Years and years of crying.
Oh, the tears!”
she said.
Depp was with French singer Vanessa Paradis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ne7ZWrVmI&t=29s&ab_channel=RumourJuice
0.41) from 1998 until 2012, and they share two children, Lily-Rose and Jack.
He wed Heard in 2015, and they divorced in 2018.
Moss has a daughter, 19-year-old model Lila, with publisher Jefferson Hack, and she was
married to The Kills musician Jamie Hince (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2mfpdbdV3U&ab_channel=PremierGuitar
0.32) from 2011 to 2016.
She’s been dating photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck (https://www.howtopronounce.com/german/nikolai
https://www.howtopronounce.com/german/von-bismarck) since 2015.
Despite the fact both Kate and Johnny went on to wed others, former flames remain close.
In a 2005 interview with Good Morning Television, a British morning show, Depp defended Moss
after the model received backlash for photos reportedly showing her snorting cocaine.
“She’s super sharp, really smart and...got a great heart,” Depp said of Moss.
“She’s a good mum, and she just happens to be human, and the press wouldn’t allow
that, and that’s unforgivable.”
According to CBS News, Depp said that he was “appalled and shocked at the kind of vicious
attacks.”
After years of wild stories about her alcohol and drug use, Moss told the magazine that
she had given up going to clubs, adding: “I’m not a hellraiser.
But don’t burst the bubble.
Behind closed doors, for sure, I’m a hellraiser.”
The supermodel recently testified in the infamous trial, when Heard mentioned her earlier.
She said that she thought of Moss during a fight with Depp on a flight of stairs, in
which she said that she punched Depp in self-defense.
Moss video-called the court from England to give her version of events.
She said there was an incident involving stairs when she and Depp were in Jamaica, but she
emphasized he never touched her.
"We were leaving the room and Johnny left the room before I did.
There had been a rainstorm.
As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back," she said under oath.
"I screamed because I didn't know what happened to me and I was in pain.
He came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention."
When Depp retook the stand during his rebuttal case, he agreed everything happened just like
Moss said it did.
But, more than that, Depp said he was the one who told Heard the tale in the first place,
seemingly trying to caution her about slippery stairs.
He added he’d never personally heard a rumor before claiming the Aquaman actor “grabbed
hold of it” to use it as part of her allegations against him, which he asserted are “heinous”
and false.
Despite the supermodel’s relationship status, social media swooned about her appearance
at the trial, with many saying Depp looked delighted when she popped up to refute prior
testimony from Heard.
“Johnny’s smile when Kate popped up on the screen?
Y’all better get back together ’cause that cute,” an eagle-eyed trial viewer wrote.
Meanwhile, another asked: “Can we talk about how Johnny’s face lit up after seeing her
face on screen?”
And after a six-week trial, a jury has found Amber Heard defamed her ex-husband by referring
to herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse" in a 2018 opinion piece.
Seven jurors at Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court found overwhelmingly in Mr Depp's
favor, awarding him $US15 million in combined damages to offset the impact of the Washington
Post article.
Mr Depp has declared victory, saying the decision has given him his "life back".
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