Babyshambles ex-manager denies Moss leak

Pete Doherty's friend and former manager has denied leaking video footage of Kate Moss taking cocaine to a British newspaper.

Pete Doherty's friend and former manager has denied leaking video footage of Kate Moss taking cocaine to a British newspaper.

James Mullord, who managed Doherty's band Babyshambles until the scandal last month has received abusive phone calls and text messages since images of the supermodel appeared in the Daily Mirror.

But he claims he is the victim of a smear campaign - and wasn't even present at the recording session where Moss allegedly took drugs in the presence of Babyshambles and their producer, former The Clash rocker Mick Jones.

He has received a number of messages from Miranda Davis, a close friend of Jones, one of which reads: "You should be ashamed of yourself you even double crossed Mick! And Pete!"

Mullord was targetted because he left London for Paris and then Scotland just days after the pictures were published.

But he insists: "I considered Pete the closest person on the planet other than my mother. I helped him get out of prison. I helped him get over drugs.

"I would never have done this to Pete or Kate. I have done nothing but look after that guy for two years."

Of the day Moss was captured on film, he says: "I went into the studio to have a look. I said hello to Kate and the crew and then went home unaware some huge thing would kick off later."

Mullord claims he has since turned down $360,000 to sell negative stories about Moss and Doherty, adding he feels Moss - who has lost a number of very lucrative modelling contracts because of the scandal - has been unfairly pilloried.

He says: "I think she has been unfairly treated. She has been painted as a woman with a drug problem. Kate is not the kind of person who will have drugs on her but she will occasionally take drugs."

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