In his 2019 autobiography, "Then It Fell Apart," Moby claims that he dated Portman after she asked him out: "I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me." Portman responded forcefully to his version of events, saying that she had just turned 18 when they met (Moby had claimed she was 20), that they had not dated, and that she had distanced herself from him once "I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate" (he is 16 years her senior).