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Supermodel Kate Moss has officially earned her weight gold.
Thanks to British artist Marc Quinn, her famous face and figure have been immortalized as a solid-gold statue named Siren. Quinn estimates the value of the life-size sculpture at more than $18 million.
Weighing about 110 lbs., Siren is described by the British Museum in London as the largest solid-gold statue since Ancient Egyptian times. Yet, the statue features 34-year-old Moss in a yoga position, making it less than three feet tall.
“I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment,” Quinn said of using Moss for the museum’s Statuephilia exhibition, which will premiere Oct. 4.
The exhibition is expected to run through Jan. 25, 2009.
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Has Kate Moss split from her rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince?
The couple, who had been dating for 10 months, reportedly hit a speed-bump during the July 4 weekend after a heated fight in the early hours of Saturday morning, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mirror.
By that afternoon, he was spotted moving his belongings out of her North London home.
Friends have previously gushed about the seemingly happy couple - who have been the subject of persistent marriage rumors. (The two began dating last summer, after the supermodel, 34, split from Pete Doherty.)
When reached by PEOPLE, reps for the model and musician had no comment.
Are Kate Moss and Pete Doherty over? The rocker has moved out of the model’s house.
Movers were spotted at Moss’s London home Wednesday removing furniture and guitars, a piano, paintings and suitcases.
According to the UK’s Daily Mirror, Moss was furious over reports that Doherty had a fling with a South African model last week.
It’s been a rocky week for the Babyshambles frontman, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a drug charge and was warned by the judge that he must attend rehab or face time in jail.
Judge Davinder Lachhar deferred sentencing until August as long as the singer attends a detox program and commits no more offenses.
Moss, 33, and Doherty, 28, have dated off and on for two years, with their relationship marked by Doherty’s repeated arrests on drug charges. Still, Doherty has long insisted they planned to marry, and claimed in memoirs published last month that they would wed this summer if he could stay drug-free.
Reps for the model and singer had no comment.
Kate Moss is no stranger to catwalks, but is she planning to strut down a different sort of aisle?
“They are very, very happy,” Sadie Frost tells PEOPLE of her good friend Moss, 34, and her rocker beau Jamie Hince.
But Frost, the ex-wife of Jude Law doesn’t seem convinced by recent tabloid reports that the supermodel and Kills guitarist are planning to get hitched.
“I really have no idea,” Frost said at an east London MySpace party for her new horror flick Beyond the Rave. “I don’t know, people just make this stuff up anyways.”
Frost also said that her 11-year-old son Rafferty is already taking after his famous father. He “looks like Jude,” she said - so much so, that he’s playing a “young Jude” in Law’s upcoming film Repossession Mambo.
Now both Frost and Law are encouraging their son’s thespian ambitions, but not at the expense of his schoolwork.
“He is very interested in acting,” she said. “You should encourage your kids in what they want to do. He still needs to study, but I would never hold him back. When he’s out of school, he can decide whether or not he wants to go his own way.”
• Kate Moss, picking up her photos - wonder
if she opted for one hour? - during a stop at Snappy Snaps, a camera
shop in London. Next on the model’s itinerary: a visit to Ronnie Wood’s
house.
• Janet Jackson, laughing with her girlfriends at
Hyde in West Hollywood. The place appears to be working for her: A source tells us she’s visited three times in a two-week span. Hanging with her friends (sans boyfriend Jermaine Dupri), Jackson kept things pretty low-key, just enjoying her friends’ company while staying warm inside.
• Also on the West Hollywood party scene: Jamie-Lynn Siglerand boyfriend Scott Sartiano, holding hands and chatting with
another couple during their night out at Villa.
• Kate Beckinsale, shopping along Montana Avenue
in Santa Monica with husband Len Wiseman. The couples stopped into
Jenny Bec’s toy store to escape the paparazzi outside. Once in the store,
employees closed the shutters so they could browse in peace. Meanwhile,
Beckinsale and her hubby left with a copy of The Dangerous Book for
Boys.
• Entourage star Kevin Connolly, ordering a glass
of chardonnay and a Diet Coke with his fried chicken and spaghetti at
Mauro’s Café at Fred Segal in L.A. Several hours later, dad-to-be Gavin Rossdaleand tennis champ Roger Federer walked in for a coffee break. Both
had lattes.
• By MAUREEN HARRINGTON and MARISA LAUDADIO
Wednesday’s Caught in the Act >
• Kate Moss, spotted out and about in North
London. The animal-print-loving model was shopping at posh boutiques Rellik for vintage clothes, and then hitting up luxury store Brora.
• Jake Gyllenhaal, dropping his German Sheppard,
Atticus, off for a spa day at LA Dogworks in Hollywood. And it’s not cheap!
Treatments there start at $200.
• Kiefer Sutherland seems to be happy signing autographs
for fans. But one thing the 24 star is politely declining: drinks from his admirers. During a visit to Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown, an onlooker tells us, “A couple of girls asked if they could buy him a J%26#228;ger Bomb.” While he declined the shot, Sutherland took pictures with fans, and held court with his group near the back of the restaurant.
• Penelope Cruz, popping in to watch Jay-Z perform songs from his album American Gangster at
Hollywood’s House of Blues Sunset. While the actress seemed overwhelmed by
the crowds (she soon took off with pal David Blaine), other stars
like Ryan Phillippe got into the music. When not
checking his iPhone, the actor threw his hands in the air, dancing to
“Excuse Me Miss” and frequently singing along. Also there (and loving it): Diddy who danced on his chair and sipped straight from a champagne bottle.
• Bruce Willis, buddying up to Jack Nicholson in their courtside seats at Los Angeles’s Staples Center. There
to cheer on the Los Angeles Lakers, Willis seemed to especially enjoy the
cheerleaders sashaying past him. For his part, Nicholson knew how to work the (large) room. When he appeared on the jumbotron, the veteran actor gave a thumbs up - and the crowd cheered.
• By JENNIFER GARCIA, ARNESA A. HOWELL, AMY ELISA KEITH and MARY
MARGARET
Wednesday’s Caught in the Act >
Playing together for the first time since 1988, Led Zeppelin rocked a capacity 10,000 crowd at London’s 02 arena Monday night - a crowd that included celebs like Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney.
The rock legends played a 16-song set that included staples like “Stairway to Heaven” and “Kashmir,” and they closed the show with the iconic barnstormer “Rock and Roll.”
In the audience? A few rock legends themselves: McCartney, Jagger and his girlfriend L’Wren Scott, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, with her daughter Riley Keough and boyfriend Ryan Cabrera. Also there: Moss, Campbell, Pink, Juliette Lewis and Jagger’s former bandmate Bill Wyman.
Before the band started up, lucky VIPs enjoyed a dinner by Las Vegas’s rock-n-roll chef, Kerry Simon, who was handpicked by the band to cook a special dinner. On the menu: crab cakes, tuna tartar, sea bass, prime rib and a decadent chocolate dessert. Simon was flown in by a wealthy concertgoer who paid $250,000 to the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund.
The show was originally scheduled for Nov. 26, but was postponed until Monday because guitarist Jimmy Page injured the little finger on his left hand. Critics were already raving about the performance (said NME: “We can only hope this isn’t the last we see of them”), prompting speculation that the legendary band may reform to tour - although guitarist Page earlier told British journalists that “merciless repetition is not what it’s all about.”