Moby’s music career has been sketchy for a while, so he obviously feels the need to up his game on the reputation front, which is why stories are leaking out about his “dark childhood” and “new clean living lifestyle”.

There’s also that time he touched Donald Trump with his penis…

In more recent news, he released a memoir in which he makes some weird claims about his dating history.

Natalie Portman has spoken out about one particular account in which Moby claims that he and Portman dated when she was 20-years-old, reports Harper’s Bazaar.

In his new book, the US singer alleges that Portman flirted with him in his dressing room when he was 33 and she was 20. He goes on to claim that the two started dating and that he “tried to be her boyfriend”, but eventually she broke it off after meeting someone else – news that came as some relief to him as it meant not having to tell her about his anxiety issues.

Yeah, that’s not what happened. Portman remembers something very different, and Moby is clearly a creep.

First things first; she wasn’t 20 when they met, she was barely 18 having recently graduated from high school.

“I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,” Portman told us.

“He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. There was no fact checking from him or his publisher – it almost feels deliberate. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me. It wasn’t the case. There are many factual errors and inventions. I would have liked him or his publisher to reach out to fact check.”

Portman was a fan who attended one of Moby’s shows when she was a teen and met him afterwards. She thought they were friends, but cut off contact when she realised that he was interested in her in a very different way.

Moby the creeper is less likely to drive up the book sales than a fling with a young Natalie Portman.

Why anyone would want to read Moby’s memoir in the first place is beyond me.

[source:harpersbazaar]