Natalie Portman has denied dating Moby in her teens, calling the musician's behaviour "inappropriate".
The actress was responding to Moby's new memoir, in which he claims Portman asked him out after a show in 2001.
"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," he wrote.
But Portman said the description was inaccurate, calling Moby a "creep" who overstepped his bounds.
Speaking to Harper's Bazaar, she said: "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. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me."
She continued: "I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated. He was on tour and I was working shooting a film, so we only hung out a handful of times before I realised that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate."
The musician has now
responded on Instagram, insisting the pair did date and stayed friends for years.
"I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we'd never dated," he wrote. "This confused me, as we did, in fact, date.
"And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years.
"I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism.
"But, to be honest, I can't figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our (albeit brief) involvement."
He added: "I completely respect Natalie's possible regret in dating me (to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn't alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history."
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