Naomi Campbell was issued with a subpoena to testify against a man named Charles Taylor who is accused of criminal responsibility for murder, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers in Liberia. He once gifted her with a blood diamond.
Naomi originally refused to testify, until she was forced to take the stand because of the subpoena.
“This is a big inconvenience for me. I really don’t want anything to do with this and I care about the protection of my family.” “This is someone, I read up on the internet, that has killed thousands of people, supposedly, and I don’t want my family in danger in any way.”
I can completely understand that, but at the same time, wasn't there some way she could've worked out a deal to testify privately and anonymously?
Campbell told the court that she was woken by two strangers and handed a pouch. Asked what she thought the gift was, she said: “They were dirty-looking pebbles. I’m used to seeing diamonds, shiny and in a box.” She told the court that the men had knocked on her door and said: “There’s a gift for you.”
There were 2-3 stones, which she assumed were gifts from Charles because she had just met him that night. Naomi turned them over to the head of the Nelson Mandela Children's fund the next day.
So scary to be involved in something like that. If Charles is guilty, I hope he's put behind bars quickly.
Naomi Campbell was issued with a subpoena to testify against a man named Charles Taylor who is accused of criminal responsibility for murder, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers in Liberia. He once gifted her with a blood diamond.
Naomi originally refused to testify, until she was forced to take the stand because of the subpoena.
“This is a big inconvenience for me. I really don’t want anything to do with this and I care about the protection of my family.” “This is someone, I read up on the internet, that has killed thousands of people, supposedly, and I don’t want my family in danger in any way.”
I can completely understand that, but at the same time, wasn't there some way she could've worked out a deal to testify privately and anonymously?
Campbell told the court that she was woken by two strangers and handed a pouch. Asked what she thought the gift was, she said: “They were dirty-looking pebbles. I’m used to seeing diamonds, shiny and in a box.” She told the court that the men had knocked on her door and said: “There’s a gift for you.”
There were 2-3 stones, which she assumed were gifts from Charles because she had just met him that night. Naomi turned them over to the head of the Nelson Mandela Children's fund the next day.
So scary to be involved in something like that. If Charles is guilty, I hope he's put behind bars quickly.
IT was about the time that Naomi Campbell wanted to scratch my eyes out (or so a trade glossy informed me) that it became clear to me that she was no ordinary model. It was 1996, and I had written an article for The New York Times Magazine about the English-born model of Jamaican (and also Chinese) ancestry, enumerating her eccentricities and recounting a few of the seemingly numberless stories about the nutty behavior of this gorgeous, magnetic and nearly pathologically petulant young woman with serious anger-management issues.
Naomi Campbell to walk the ramp at Lakme Fashion Week!
International supermodel Naomi Campbell is all set to walk the ramp for the first time in India on March 28 for Lakme India Fashion Week. Her Charity, Fashion for Relief organizes fashion shows and other events for helping people in times of need. Naomi Campbell is to provide help to the victims of 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
Naomi Campbell is expected to bring with her international and Indian fashion designers to showcase their collections, collaborating with Lakme Fashion Week. Since 1997 Campbell has been involved in charity work to help the children and people of Sub-Saharan Africa and also has worked with Nelson Mandela. In 2005, her charity Fashion for Relief raised over US$ 1,000,000 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The show in Mumbai, Mai Mumbai (I am Mumbai), will also see India’s best models, Bollywood stars, athletes and sportspersons, and prominent social and business personalities, who will walk the ramp in designer outfits that will be auctioned to raise funds for the victims of 26/11.
US based hotelier Vikram Chatwal will be the presenter of the show. After the show, Chatwal will be attending the opening of his first hotel, Dream Hotels, in Kochi (Cochin), where Naomi Campbell is expected to meet many Indian socialites and Bollywood stars.
Lakme Fashion Week, Fall Winter 2009, is expected to have some celebrities from the International fashion arena like YSL, Roberto Cavalli, Marthew Williamson, Donna Karan, Carolina Harrera, Isaac Mizrahi, Versace, Diane Von Fursenburg, Anna Sui and Manolo Blahnik.
About Naomi Campbell: born on 22 May 1970, Campbell is an English model, singer and actress. Born in Stratham, London, England, Campbell, is Black Jamaican and also of Chinese Hakka descent through her paternal grandmother of Chinese Jamaican ancestry.
Campbell started her career as a catwalk model but she was soon in high profile advertising campaigns, including Lee Jeans, Olympus Corporation, Ralph Lauren, François Nars, etc.
Naomi Campbell has appeared on the covers of Vogue Paris, Vogue UK, Vogue Nippon, Time magazine and several others, totaling more than 500 magazine covers.
Campbell also appeared in music videos for artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, MNelly, Jagged Edge, Jay-Z, P.Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G, Macy Gray, Prince and Usher. Campbell was featured on Vanilla Ice's single Cool as Ice. She sang on the Heaven's Girl track on Quincy Jones's album Q's Jook Joint. In 1995, Campbell released her debut music album, Baby Woman.
Campbell has introduced her perfumes and fragrances such as Naomi Campbell, Naomagic, Cat Deluxe, Mystery, Sunset, Paradise Passion and her latest fragrance Cat Deluxe at Night.
Starting from 1991, Naomi Campbell has also performed in several movies, including her appearance in ‘Karma, Confessions and Holi’.
In 1999, Campbell developed a spin-off company, the "Design House of Naomi Campbell". So far Campbell has created seven fragrances for women, most of which were released in Europe. In 2000, Campbell introduced her first perfumes, "Naomi Campbell" and "Naomagic", a portmanteau of Campbell's name and the word "magic".
In 2001, Campbell introduced her third perfume, "Cat Deluxe", and in 2003 released "Mystery". A year later a fifth fragrance was made, "Sunset", and in 2005 another fragrance was released, "Paradise Passion". Campbell's latest fragrance is a new version of her Cat Deluxe perfume called "Cat Deluxe at Night".
Maybe it’s just the unflattering bikini top, but the 34-year-old German beauty looked half the girl she used to be.Three children with pop hit hubby Seal, 45, seem to have taken a bit of a toll on her bust and tummy.An onlooker said: “She still looks great but kids play havoc with your body — and supermodels are no different.”Heidi was on her annual trip to Mexico to ‘re-marry’ Seal on the beach near their holiday home in Careyes, the venue for their original wedding in May 2005.One local said: “They are so in love and it is beautiful that they keep their passion alive by getting married in the same place every year.”So that’s one celebrity pair unlikely to lift and separate… unless Heidi gets herself a new bikini top.
