Moss’s agency, Storm, said last week there were no immediate plans to go ahead with the book, which was arranged by Sir Richard Branson with his company Virgin Books.

Moss, 32, learnt last Thursday that she would not be charged with any drugs offence despite the publication of pictures last autumn that apparently showed her taking cocaine.

Initially Moss’s career seemed to be badly damaged by the pictures and she lost several key contracts, including those with H&M, Burberry and Chanel.

Branson took pity as he had done 20 years earlier when he helped the singer Boy George fight his drug problems. The billionaire took Moss to his holiday island last December after she had spent about a month in a rehabilitation clinic in Arizona.

By spring of this year it was becoming clear that Moss’s career was, if anything, doing better than before the drugs reports. She signed a deal last November with Branson’s Virgin Mobile for £3m, the most lucrative of her new contracts. She has since clinched deals with Nikon, Calvin Klein and Bulgari. Her contracts, worth just under £4m before the drugs storm broke, are now estimated to total £11m.

“The book deal was a wise move at the time, but it’s a wiser move now to pull out as she has got her career back on track,” said Mark Borkowski, a public relations expert. “She is perceived to have cleaned up her act. So she can save the memoirs for a rainy day when she needs to re-invent herself.”

Virgin Books confirmed: “We don’t have a publication date for the Kate Moss book.” In January, it said the book should appear by September.

Although the Moss book will not appear for the foreseeable future, the story of Doherty will be told by his mother Jacqueline, who signed a publishing deal last month.

Doherty’s troubles with drugs continued yesterday when he was fined by Swedish authorities after cocaine was found in his bloodstream.

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