How Kate beat ban and came back to USA
“She’s back!” — again. Designer Marc Jacobs took to Instagram to broadcast big news from last week’s Met Gala — the reappearance of supermodel Kate Moss in New York after nearly a decade.
Moss, 44, was last seen in the city in 2009 when she co-hosted the Met Gala with her longtime pal Jacobs and Justin Timberlake.
She appeared at Monday’s bash in a black Saint Laurent minidress embellished with feathered black wings, and was seen in several photos on her hair stylist James Brown’s Insta-Instagram page — hanging outt in the West Village and even taking a bus tour of the city.
Although there has neverer been an official announcement, fashionistasshionistas have long speculated that the model had avoided the US be-because she was banned fromrom working here following a 2005 drug scandal in thee UK. The Daily Mirrorr published screenshots from a video that showedd the British beauty appar-parently chopping and snortingting a white powder — with the headline “Cocaine Kate.”” At the time, she was dating musi-musician and admitted addict Pete Doherty, who was notoriousrious for his drug abuse and who also appeared in the video.o.
Moss never faced drug charges in Britain, but ann im-immigration expert told Thee PostPost that it could have been enoughnough to get her banned in the US — as a worker or even a tourist.rist.
Foreign nationals who are denied entry to the US for having abused a controlledled substance that is illegal in this country can apply for “a waiver of inadmissability” from US consular officials, said Manhattan immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni. This may have been how Moss was able to return to the country for both the 2009 and 2018 Met Galas, Tegoni said. In the wake of the 2005 scandal, Moss — who then regularly traveled to New York for work — lost many of her modeling gigs, including ones with Chanel and H&M. Others in the fashion world, however, including Dior and Rimmel London, chose to stand by her. Sources say the scandal was a wake-up call. One told The Post that Moss went to stay at Louise Fletcher’s hhome in southwestern France to recover. TheThe AAmerican actress, who played Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” lives next door to Moss’ best friend, momodel Lucie de la Falaise. “She hid out at Louise’s house. LucLucie sorted her out,” the sosource said. A friend of Moss’ added that the fashion icon stopped drinking alcohol last year. “She’s been sober since ChristmChristmas supposedly — it was a conditicondition of her relationship with NikolaNikolai,” the friend told The Post, referrireferring to Moss’ current boyfriendfriend, Count Nikolai von Bismarcmarck, 30. “She drank tea at all her ChriChristmas parties and everyone is sasaying she’s [in] the best form she’she’s ever been.” In February, reporters spotted MoMoss leaving the US Embassy in LoLondon with a stack of visa applplication forms. Although UK nanationals do not need a visa to tratravel to the US, “a habitual drudrug user or even someone whowh is suspected of using drugs is inadmissablein to the US” withoutout aa wawaiver, Tegroni said. Her retureturn on Monday was cause for celebration among her pals. Robert Rich, a friendfri of Moss’ and a former vice-presidepresident at Marc Jacobs, threw her an intimate llunch and wanted to give her a gift commemoratingcomm her return. He came up with the slogan “Make America Kate Again,” and asked New York fashion designerdesigner AlysAlyson Eastman to paint it on the back of a blablack leather jacket which the model wore MMonday while walking about Manhattan. “I never expectedexpe to see it all over Instagram,”gram,” Eastman ttold The Post. “It’s my dream come true to see Kate in the jacket.”