Musician Moby has cancelled his upcoming tour promoting his new memoir, Then It Fell Apart.
The 53-year-old New Yorker was due to appear at the Liberty Hall in Dublin on June 6 as a part of his UK and Ireland book tour, which has now been cancelled.
The DJ was recently embroiled in a controversy after he claimed in his memoir that he had dated actress Natalie Portman - who denied his version of events.
Other appearances included those at Hay Book Festival, EatH in London and the Martin Harris Centre in Manchester.
Journalist Dave Haslam said on Twitter: “Moby news >> Moby has cancelled all upcoming public appearances for the foreseeable future, including his book events at Hay Book Festival, EartH (London), Martin Harris Centre (Manchester), and Liberty Hall Theatre (Dublin).”
Moby had alleged that he met Portman when she was 20 and they dated briefly.
But Portman slammed the claims saying she had turned 18 when they had met.
She told 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."
She further claimed that there had been no fact checking from him or his publisher saying "it almost felt deliberate".
She added: “That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me."
Moby apologised to Portman on social media for being “inconsiderate”.
He said: “As some time has passed, I've realised that many of the criticisms leveled at me regarding my inclusion of Natalie in Then It Fell Apart are very valid.
“I also fully recognize that it was truly inconsiderate of me to not let her know about her inclusion in the book beforehand, and equally inconsiderate for me to not fully respect her reaction.
“I have a lot of admiration for Natalie, for her intelligence, creativity, and animal rights activism, and I hate that I might have caused her and her family distress.
He added: “I tried to treat everyone I included in Then It Fell Apart with dignity and respect, but nonetheless it was truly inconsiderate for me to not let them know before the book was released.
“So for that I apologize to Natalie, as well as the other people I wrote about in Then It Fell Apart without telling them beforehand.
“Also I accept that given the dynamic of our almost 14 year age difference I absolutely should've acted more responsibly and respectfully when Natalie and I first met almost 20 years ago.”
