Moby Responds to Natalie Portman’s Denial That They Once Dated: ‘Doesn’t Alter the Facts’

Moby is speaking out again about his past with Natalie Portman — and how their recollections of their one-time relationship differ wildly.

In a Friday, February 20 interview with U.K. newspaper The Times, the 60-year-old musician reflected on the claims he made in his 2019 memoir Then It Fell Apart, where he said he dated Portman in 1999 when he was 33 — and she was 18.

Portman, now 44, had long denied that description, saying in a 2019 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, “I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,” she said.

“I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated,” she told the outlet. “When we met after the show, he said, ‘let’s be friends’. He was on tour and I wa...