Instagram/Moby & Natalie Portman Celebrity Moby revisits his 1999 dating claim about Natalie Portman, who denied it as inappropriate. The years-long dispute explained. March 16, 2026 AceShowbiz - Moby has opened up about the long-standing disagreement between himself and Natalie Portman regarding their past interactions in 1999. The controversy stems from his 2019 memoir Then It Fell Apart, where he claimed to have briefly dated the actress when he was 33 and she was 18. Portman strongly denied this, describing their connection very differently.