Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman has slammed techno musician Moby for his "very disturbing" claims that the pair dated in the late 1990s.
In his recent memoir Then It Fell Apart, Moby writes that they had a brief relationship when he was 33 and she was 20.
After they met backstage, Moby recalls going to parties with Portman and going to see her at Harvard University, "kissing under the centuries-old oak trees. At midnight she brought me to her dorm room and we lay down next to each other on her small bed. After she fell asleep I carefully extracted myself from her arms and took a taxi back to my hotel".
Later in the book he writes: "For a few weeks I had tried to be Natalie's boyfriend, but it hadn't worked out," adding that she broke off the relationship after meeting someone else.
In a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar, Portman refuted the claims and told the magazine: "I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating.