Kate drops cocaine libel suit

Supermodel Kate Moss ended the libel suit she filed against Britain's Channel Five just hours before a London trial date was due to be set. Moss, 32, filed the suit after the station aired a documentary claiming she had collapsed into a cocaine-induced coma back in 2001, the Mirror reported. Naomi Campbell's personal assistant said she witnessed Moss snorting the drug in a Madrid hotel bathroom and later helped revive Moss after the model had become comatose. The TV station was granted permission by the court last month to use as evidence pictures published in the Mirror of Moss using cocaine in a London recording studio, the newspaper said. The Mirror said Moss decided to call off her suit Thursday because she would have had to sign a statement denying she was snorting cocaine in the Mirror pictures. [UPI]