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Home More 31 March 2006 KATE PULLS OUT OF LIBEL CASE EXCLUSIVE By Fiona Cummins, Showbiz Reporter KATE Moss yesterday dramatically pulled out of a libel action over her cocaine abuse - landing herself with a £60,000 legal bill.

The supermodel dropped her suit against Channel Five just 24 hours before a trial date was due to be set.

Now Kate, 32, faces a nail-biting two-week wait to see if she will be charged with drug offences following separate revelations by the Daily Mirror.

She sued the TV station over a documentary 15 months ago alleging she collapsed into a cocaine-induced coma.

The Truth About Kate Moss claimed she fell ill after snorting vast quantities of the drug in Barcelona in 2001.

TV bosses defended their programme on the basis that it meant she was a serious cocaine abuser.

The film included a 90-second interview with Naomi Campbell's personal assistant, Rebecca White.

Ms White said she took cocaine with mum of one Kate in a hotel bathroom and later revived her from the coma.

Advertisement Last month Five won a High Court battle to allow Mirror film of the model snorting lines of coke in a West London recording studio in September to be admitted as eviden...

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