Kate Moss salary doubles since cocaine "scandal" to £9.4m/yr ($16.3 m)

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Six months after those pictures, US label Calvin Klein is the latest big name to court the supermodel, increasing her post-Pete Doherty earnings to £9.4m a year
By Andrew Johnson and Anthony Barnes
Published: 26 February 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article347813.ece

The supermodel Kate Moss is on the verge of signing one of the most lucrative contracts of her career just six months after a cocaine scandal had appeared to end her reign as Britain's most successful model. Her publicist confirmed yesterday that Moss, 32, is in talks over a deal thought to be worth close to $2.6m (£1.5m) with the US fashion giant Calvin Klein - boosting her earnings to around £9m a year, almost double that before she was photographed snorting cocaine.

She is also likely to be reunited with the fashion house Burberry, which ended her contract following the drug revelations. Then it appeared that Moss, the girl from Croydon who was "discovered" at the age of 14 at JFK airport, was finished.

Pictures of her taking cocaine in a recording studio with her then musician boyfriend Pete Doherty had brought a storm of criticism, leading big-name employers Hennes, Burberry and Chanel to cancel their contracts. As Moss fled to the United States with her three-year-old daughter, checking herself into a rehab clinic in Arizona, police here launched an investigation - she will hear if she is to face charges for possession of a class A drug this week.

Far from destroying her career, however, the publicity has, if anything, enhanced it. Moss is now earning more than ever before. Her lost contracts have been more than compensated for with multi-million-dollar deals with Longchamps, Bulgari and Virgin mobile - her TV ads boosted sales of Richard Branson's mobile phones by 12 per cent.