Posted on 03/05/2006 7:10:36 PM PST by Stoat
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By CLODAGH HARTLEY The picture on Page One of The Sun newspaper shows her in a hotel with cocaine chopped into four lines on the table. The supermodel, 32, is holding a rolled-up tube ready to snort the killer drug in another night of wild partying. We can reveal Cocaine Kate even took it at the home of the then South African president Nelson Mandela moments before meeting the great man. And our probe also shows Kate: BLEW an estimated £500,000 on the Class A drug. BECAME so desperate for a hit she once hoovered up a massive line off a dirty floor. MAY kill herself if she ever goes back to the drug, pals fear. NEEDED coke so badly she would brazenly snort a line every five minutes in front of others. HAD ready supplies in a new city thanks to her management sending out for it. The latest revelations come as the mum-of-one battles to turn her life around after being pictured snorting coke at a recording studio last year. She spent weeks in an Arizona rehab amid the furore that cost her deals with top names. But today a former member of her inner sanctum reveals just how tough her battle must be. Model booker Gavin Maselle, 36, said Kate was high on cocaine EVERY time he met her during their eight-year friendship. He added: Kate has been addicted for years. I truly hope she stays off coke because if she ever goes back, it will be the end of her. The front page picture was taken in a room at the exclusive Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, in February 1998, when the model was 24. Another picture shows Kate bleary-eyed at the hotel during the same trip.
She was in the country for a fashion show and to meet Nelson Mandela for a formal evening at his mansion. Other models there included Naomi Campbell. But despite the glittering occasion and meeting one of the worlds most respected men, Kate could not resist drugs. Gavin, who was with her at the party, revealed she suddenly yanked him into a toilet while the South African president greeted his guests. She chopped out a line of cocaine and snorted it from the seat. Gavin said: She was insatiable I couldnt believe what I was seeing. We were there at Mandelas house in the Bishops Court area of Cape Town and Kate was doing coke. Gavin first met the model in September, 1997, when she jetted into Cape Town for an event organised by her agency Storm. Within minutes of being introduced at a lunch she followed him into the gents and snorted coke in front of him. Gavin revealed: I heard this tap on the door and this squeaky English accent saying, Its Kate. Let me in. So I let her in. She did a line of cocaine and we sorted of bonded there and then. She wanted to hang out with me all the time. I was in her inner sanctum for years.
The next day Gavin arrived at Kates hotel and a party was soon full swing again after the model ordered a massive five grammes of cocaine. He said: She got f*****. I stayed with her until we both crashed out. But that was just a warm-up for the main event on that trip. The following day was the show for the launch of Storm Models South Africa, which Gavin was helping to organise. He said Kate was so addicted she had to have a line just ten minutes before the start of the event at Cape Towns Velodrome sports stadium. Gavin revealed: She was running around backstage looking for somewhere to do the coke. It was pandemonium, just minutes before she was due to open the show. She pulled me into the changing rooms and when she saw that there was no toilet seat or other surface to chop up the cocaine she just said f*** it, the ground, lets do it off the ground. The cocaine was thrown on the floor, not even chopped up and divided into two. Then she bent over, bum in the air and snorted half in just one go. I could not believe it. It was gross and unhygienic but she didnt care. I thought my God you will collapse. But she laughed and went straight out on to the catwalk and was seamless. Afterwards Kate partied hard into the night with a multi- millionaire businessman, a world-famous rock star and a host of A-list models, getting through several more grammes of coke. The model who now has three-year-old daughter Lila Grace and her entourage ended up at the Table Bay Hotel after running out of cocaine backstage. Gavin said: Kate and I, and about four other top models all piled into a convertible car and drove back to their hotel. It was crazy. I was in the front with Kate on my lap and the millionaire was in the back squashed between other models. More cocaine was picked up and we returned to a suite at the hotel.
The other models were openly racking up lines of coke on the coffee table in the sitting room. But Kate wanted to be more discreet. She and the businessman locked themselves in the bathroom. Kate snorted more lines. She let me in and we sat on the edge of the bath chatting. I remember thinking how surreal it all was. I was locked in a bathroom with Kate Moss and this famous businessman and the cocaine was flying around. More cocaine was delivered and we partied until morning. A chauffeur who ferried Kate around during the 1997 trip said she would snort coke even on the short trip from her hotel to the shops. He added: She would do a line every five minutes. It became clear that as soon as she arrived in Cape Town her management here sent out to get her the cocaine. And Gavin warned last night: Kate needs to realise what is real in her life, what is good and what is bad and stay off coke. |
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The Sun Online - Sun Says Kate the dope
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Tabloid story. More fit for the grocery store...something some people might want to read while standing in line.
What's most amazing, and I guess not all that surprising, is all those people around her that claim to be her "friend" and did not do anything to stop her.
Yes, and most notably Nelson Mandela and his entire staff.
Nelson Mandela entertaining a group of coked up supermodels. Truly he is a man of the people.
At least his wife didn't offer any of them a necklace.
And a man who will likely be insulated from this monumental scandal by an adoring and sycophantic media elite class.
At least his wife didn't offer any of them a necklace.
BBC News The Winnie Mandela Trial Profile of Winnie Mandela
The Winnie Mandela Trial Profile of Winnie Mandela Happier times for Winnie Winnie Mandela was born in 1934 at Bizana, Pondoland, in the Transkei. She qualified as a social worker in 1953 and met her future husband, Nelson, while working at a hospital in the black township of Soweto in 1957. They married in June 1958, despite her father's objections that Nelson was too committed to politics and, at the age of 41, too old for her. Their early married life was punctuated by raids as the police cracked down on the ANC and by periods when Nelson was absent - either in hiding or in prison awaiting trial. Eventually, Nelson was jailed for life in 1964.
Unsurprisingly, this led to a great deal of attention from the South African police force. Her home was frequently searched, she was frequently questioned and prosecuted for minor transgressions against the apartheid laws. The low point of this period came when Mrs Mandela was arrested in 1969 under the Suppression of Terrorism Act and imprisoned in solitary confinement for 17 months. This was followed by periods of banning and house arrest, and short spells in jail on minor charges. In 1976, a student uprising in Soweto was put down by force, leaving hundreds of people dead. Winnie was banished from Soweto to Brandfort in the Orange Free State, an area where she knew no-one and did not even speak the local dialect. It was at this time that Winnie Mandela became well known in the West. She organised local clinics, campaigned actively for equal rights and was promoted by the ANC as a symbol of its struggle against apartheid. In 1985, she defied her banning order by returning to Soweto after her home in Brandfort was firebombed. After being arrested for breaking the order, the government relented and allowed her to stay.
The most serious allegations, however, stemmed from the activities of her personal bodyguards, the so-called Mandela United Football Club. Reports of their brutality were commonplace in Soweto and her house was attacked in 1988 by local people who had had enough. Mrs Mandela refused to curb the team's activities, however, and the following year came the decisive incident. A 14-year-old activist, Stompei Seipei Moketsi, was kidnapped by her guards and later found murdered. The ANC leadership declared that she was out of control but Nelson Mandela, in jail and in ill-health, refused to repudiate her.
Gradually, however, relations between them cooled and in 1991 Winnie Mandela was charged with the assault and kidnapping of Stompei. Initially convicted and given six years in jail, Mrs Mandela appealed and had the sentence reduced to a fine. The trial was notable for witnesses who failed to appear or whose testimony contradicted statements which they had given the police. One of the key planks of her defence was an alibi that she was being driven elsewhere at the time of the kidnap - after the trial the driver denied that the journey had taken place. In 1992 Nelson Mandela tired of his wife's political and personal excesses and announced that he and Winnie were to separate. They eventually divorced in 1996 on the grounds of her adultery. Mrs Mandela, or Mrs Madikizela-Mandela as she became known after her divorce, was now extremely unwelcome at the top table of the now-governing African National Congress. She retained, however, a huge following among the rank and file by appealing to the radicals and to those who felt that progress towards equality was still too slow. For example, in 1993 she was suspended from the ANC Women's League for disloyalty but bounced back by winning election as its president - the following year 11 members of the ANCWL resigned in protest at her dictatorial behaviour. Also in 1994, she polled so well in the elections which saw Nelson made president that she not only became an MP but won the post of Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. Later that year she was elected to the ANC's national executive committee. In 1995, however, she made herself unpopular with the government by accusing it of not doing enough to combat racism. After widespread allegations of misappropriating government funds, she was dismissed from her ministerial post by her former husband. The careers of most politicians would have been finished long ago with such a record, but not Mrs Madikezela-Mandela's. Earlier this year she won a second term as president of the Women's League and even now is defying the ANC leadership by challenging its preferred candidate for the deputy presidency of the party. Victory in that poll would in theory put her in a strong position to run for high office some time in the future. But given the allegations made at the Truth Commission and opposition from within the ANC, that would mean a political comeback on a scale unprecedented even in Winnie Mandela's own career. |
ugh. the things some individuals associate with.
(take it either way - they're both absolute scum)
Agreed, but we'll see if Mandela, Icon of the Left, will get any heat over this. Most will probably yawn over it, much as the FR Overseers have, having immediately moved this thread from News to "General Chat" where it will likely languish into obscurity. With that sort of attitude he'll escape any questions whatsoever.
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