Moby Claims He ‘Dated’ Pre-Fame Lana Del Rey & She Called Him A ‘Person They Guillotine

Turns out, Natalie Portman isn’t the only A-list beauty whom Moby is insisting he “dated” back in the day.

In his new memoir, Then It Fell Apart, the 53-year-old musician claimed he had also enjoyed a fling with Lana Del Rey years before she was famous!

One section of the book, which was released earlier this month, sees the Bodyrock singer detailing a brief romance with LDR that kicked off after the two met at a bar, when she was an 18 year old known as Lizzy Grant.

The two allegedly “kissed at the bar at 4 a.m., just as the place was closing,” according to the memoir. The Grammy-nominee then invited the future star back to his place where he hoped to have sex with her; Lana apparently declined, but agreed to go on a date with him.

He wrote of that first meeting:

“We’d kissed at the bar at 4 a.m., just as the place was closing, and I’d asked her to come home with me. She’d smiled and said no, she wouldn’t go home with me after just meeting me, but she would happily go on a date if I called her and asked her out. I called her the next day, and we talked for thirty minutes about music and politics and growing up in the suburbs.”

Moby went on to describe the songstress as “beautiful, smart, and charming,” adding that “making plans to meet up with her was both what I wanted to do and what my new therapist had told me to do.”

The two ended up having their first date at a vegan macrobiotic restaurant in 2006, when Lana would have been either 20 or 21 and Moby would have been 40 or 41. During that dinner, Lana revealed to Moby that she was a musician. He asked her to play something for him at his five-floor New York penthouse — a subtle #humblebrag that left the budding star woefully unimpressed.

After learning about his sprawling bachelor pad, Lana apparently told the industry vet that he was a privileged “WASP” who would be guillotined during a revolution. LOLz!

Per Moby’s book, that exchange went a little something like this:

“Sure, do you have a piano?”

“Yes, back on the second floor,” I said.

“Floors in an apartment.” She shook her head. “Moby you know you’re the man.”

“Ha, thanks,” I said.

“No, not like that. You’re a rich WASP from Connecticut and you live in a five-level penthouse. You’re ‘The Man.’ As in, ‘stick it to The Man.’ As in the person they guillotine in the revolution.”

I didn’t know if she was insulting me but I decided to take it as a compliment.”

After priming her date with some expert negging, LDR agreed to go back to Moby’s apartment, where she apparently wooed him with a “haunting” song. Moby writes that Lana’s voice was “dark but strong,” and she wasn’t sure if she should release music under her “plain” real name.

Moby apparently used this as an opportunity to make a move: he told her she had a “nice” name and proceeded to kiss her as they both sat on the piano bench. LDR was into it… until she wasn’t.

As Moby writes, the future star quickly stopped kissing him over concerns that she was just another one of his sexual conquests. The electronic music master couldn’t deny this was the case, so their evening ended abruptly.

He recalled in the book:

“I sat next to her on the piano bench and started kissing her. She kissed me back — but then stopped.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“I like you. But I hear you do this with a lot of people.”

I wanted to lie, to tell her that I didn’t, that I was chaste, sane, and ethical. But I said nothing.

“I’d like to see you again,” she said.

“Me too.”

I walked her downstairs to the twenty-ninth floor and kissed her good night at the bank of the elevators.”

This wasn’t how I imagined the night ending. I’d assumed that we would end up christening my new apartment with vodka and sex. But to my surprise, this was almost nicer.”

It’s unclear if the two ended up going on that second date. However, Moby revealed that they worked together professionally a year later in 2007 when she was briefly a backup singer for his band The Little Death.

She ended up quitting the band to work on her own material and go on to become the star we know as Lana Del Rey.

We’re not sure if Lana would agree that these encounters would constitute as “dating,” but at least it sounds more legit than Moby’s account of “dating” Portman.

As we reported, the Vox Lux star refuted Moby’s claims that they had a “relationship” nearly 20 years ago, arguing that she was just a fan of his and had no interest in being with him romantically. She said in a statement to Harper’s Bazaar UK:

“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. He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18… I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated. When we met after the show, he said, ‘Let’s be friends.’ He was on tour and I was working, shooting a film, so we only hung out a handful of times before I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate.”

We’ll see if LDR has a similar recollection about her time with the older musician.

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