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Kate Moss's 30th birthday is famed as London's most decadent party - I know it's true because I was there...and saw the cocaine and all those naked bodies writhing on the bed
The halls and bars of Claridge's hotel, London, are all but deserted. Night cleaners move discreetly around a solitary guest who nurses an unfinished drink. In an instant, the calm is shattered.
As a night porter showed Ronnie Wood, along with his then-wife Jo and daughter Leah, to the lift that morning, I started the climb up the stairs to the seventh floor and the penthouse suite where Kate and her closest friends would party until long after dawn. By the time I made it up the back stairs and into the seventh floor corridor, there was a logjam of extravagantly dressed guests waiting to pass the final hurdle of a clipboard-wielding official who guarded the base of the narrow little staircase that ran up to Kate's penthouse suite. Three years later, Harper's Bazaar magazine would rate Kate's 'The Beautiful And The Damned' birthday bash number three in a top ten of scandalous parties that included all of Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah and the last days of Rome.
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