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“No formal complaints were made against her and she was not arrested,” police said
Moss had been in Turkey celebrating the birthday of a friend
(CNN)Police have escorted supermodel Kate Moss off a plane at an airport near London after she was reportedly being disruptive, according to reports in the UK media, including the BBC.
Police would not confirm to CNN that it was Kate Moss. CNN has reached out to Moss’ representatives for comment.
Police met easyJet Flight 2232 from Bodrum, Turkey, at London Luton Airport on Sunday “due to the behavior of a passenger on board,” according to a statement from the airline.
Moss was seen earlier that day in Bodrum celebrating the 50th birthday of friend Sadie Frost, a designer and former wife of actor Jude Law.
Bye bye Turkey …. Thanks so much for such a girlie yet inspirational week – will remember it forever – you all got me ready for the big half a century!!! @roseferguson_ @francutler @francesruffelle @jem_frenchie @teresatarmey and KM xx
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Jun 7, 2015 at 3:09am PDT
Frost posted a series of images on her Instagram account that indicated that she, Moss and other friends, including party planner Fran Cutler and former model turned Harley Street nutritionist Rose Ferguson, were staying at The LifeCo, a detox retreat center.
Frost posted a picture that showed Moss dressed in a striped pajama suit with the caption, “Morning!! Perfect breakfast attire!!”
Morning!! Perfect breakfast attire!!
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Jun 6, 2015 at 11:40pm PDT
Police said they were called to help staff escort a passenger off a flight arriving at the airport, in Bedfordshire near London, on Sunday afternoon.
The passenger had been reported as “disruptive on the flight,” Bedfordshire police said in a statement.
“Officers attended and escorted the passenger from the plane. No formal complaints were made against her and she was not arrested,” the statement added.
After 25 years as a top model, Moss, 41, is one of the world’s most recognizable faces.
Life in the limelight
Originally from Croydon near London, she was famously discovered at JFK Airport in New York in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model Management.
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In an industry known for its fair-weather philosophy, Kate Moss has manged to maintain a flourishing modeling career for more than 25 years. The photo above was Moss’ first modeling shot — taken in 1988 when she was just 14. British photographer David Ross, who rediscovered the image several years ago, says he turned Moss away at first because she arrived at his studio unaccompanied by an adult.
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Ross said that despite having little idea what she was doing, the teenage Moss “just had a certain edge in her natural expression, and there was a look in her eye in her very first pictures that we are still familiar with today.”
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Moss, wearing a knitted black body stocking, poses for a photo circa 1993.
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Model Naomi Campbell lights a cigarette for Moss in 1993.
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Photographer Kim Knott stands at his camera addressing an assistant as Moss strikes a pose during a 1995 shoot in New York City.
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While Moss is known to shy away from most interviews, her private life has remained the subject of heated speculation and intrigue. Her four-year relationship with film star Johnny Depp, which ended in 1998, was irresistible camera fodder.
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Moss has her hair tonged backstage at a show in 1999.
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Moss’ turbulent, on-and-off relationship with musician Pete Doherty regularly captured headlines in the British press for all the wrong reasons. The couple is seen here in 2006.
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Rock star Jamie Hince and Moss pose for photographs after their wedding in July 2011.
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Moss walks the runway during a Louis Vuitton show in 2013. Despite some potentially career-ending controversies — she was dropped from a number of lucrative contracts following reports of drug abuse — Moss has never fallen out of favor for long. And even as she approached 40 she was still one of the world’s highest-paid models.
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Moss has inspired the creativity of many artists. Here, she poses beside “She’s Light (Laser 3)” by Chris Levine at Christie’s Auction House in London in September 2013.
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Moss poses for photographers in September 2013. Allen Jones’ photograph “Body Armour,” seen at left, sold for $ 52,000. The one on the right, “Kate ‘Aladdin Sane’ ” by Nick Knight, sold for more than $ 47,000.
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Moss models for global self-tan brand St. Tropez. Her roster of clients has included Bulgari, Dolce & Gabbana, Longchamp, Versace, Virgin Mobile and Nikon.
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Moss attends the British Fashion Awards in December 2013. She was honored with a Special Recognition Award for her 25 years in the industry.
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Moss, left, and singer Rita Ora, right, attend a 2014 Halloween party in London.
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EXPAND GALLERY
Moss’ androgynous look and waifish figure were light-years away from the high-octane glamour and curves of supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer, who dominated the runways at that time.
Her look perfectly fit the new more pared-down, minimalist aesthetic of the early ’90s, and she shot to fame in 1993 in a series of ads for Calvin Klein, which popularized the “heroin chic” look.
Over the years, she has graced the cover of Vogue — probably the most coveted spot in fashion — numerous times and strutted down countless catwalks.
Moss’ scandals
She has also been at the center of a few scandals.
In the early 2000s, Moss notoriously dated British rocker Pete Doherty, a former Libertines front man who was known for his drug abuse, and she became a regular in the gossip pages.
She lost modeling contracts in 2005 after the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper, published photos of her snorting lines of white powder through a rolled-up bank note.
“Cocaine Kate: Supermodel Kate Moss snorts line after line,” the headline read, and in the following days, she lost contracts with the likes of Burberry and H&M.
She released an apology through her agency Storm: “I take full responsibility for my actions,” she said, and told “all the people I have let down” that she was sorry.
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