Marianne Faithfull has launched an extraordinary attack on former friend Kate Moss, calling the supermodel a ‘vampire’ who stole her style.
The 62-year-old singer says that, although she and Kate were once close, they are no longer on speaking terms.
'She's not really my friend. I thought she was, but she's very clever,' she said.
'She wanted to read me like a Braille book. And she did. It's a vampirical thing.'
Marianne, who famously had a relationship with Mick Jagger in the late 1960s, even accuses the 35-year-old of emulating her choice of men, comparing the Rolling Stone to Kate’s new boyfriend Jamie Hince.
'Now I see pictures of her with a boy who looks like Mick Jagger, and her looking like me. So there was a reason. It's one of her gigs to do me,' she told The Times
Kate and Marianne, apparently drawn to each other by a shared love of fashion and rock stars, were once a regular night-time fixture in Central London and even holidayed together in the Bahamas.
At the time the iconic star said that she and Kate, who is almost thirty years her junior, were kindred spirits.
‘She’s very complex – she’s very like me. She’s a Capricorn. I think she’s great,’ she has said.
However the pair’s friendship ‘suddenly soured’ some time later, according to Marianne.
'You know, it's OK. I don't give a s***. But I was quite offended at the time. We were very fond of each other. And then it suddenly soured,' she added.
'She's very clever, but she isn't at all educated. We don't have any [common] references. Except music.”
The singer, who is returning to music after taking a long break following treatment for breast cancer, was famously found naked, covered in just a fur rug, during a police drugs raid on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards's Sussex mansion in the Sixties
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