Naomi Campbell News
20 June 2008: Naomi Campbell pleads guilty
Naomi Campbell has pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers. She was later sentenced to a 200 hour unpaid community service order.
29 May 2008: Naomi Campbell charged with assault
Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers after an incident on 3 April. She will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on 20 June.
4 April 2008: Naomi Campbell released on bail
Naomi Campbell has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
The BBC has details of the alleged incident involving Naomi Campbell at Terminal 5.
26 February 2008: Naomi Campbell has cyst removed
The BBC has reported that Naomi Campbell had a cyst removed in Sao Paulo after flying to Brazil for treatment.
23 August 2007: Naomi Campbell case proceeds
Fox reported: "A judge is allowing a lawsuit against Naomi Campbell to proceed, and ruled the supermodel's stormy past can potentially be used against her."
7 March 2007: Naomi Campbell to clean floors
After admitting reckless assault in a plea bargain, Naomi Campbell will be cleaning floors in a New York municipal warehouse as part of a five-day community service order. Naomi Campbell will also have to attend an anger management course.
The BBC has more information on Naomi Campbell's punishment.
27 June 2006: Naomi Campbell has more time to settle
According to the Times report, Naomi Campbell is silent in court: "The case was adjourned until September 27 to allow her time to negotiate a possible plea bargain after claims by Ana Scolavino, a Chilean-born maid, that Ms Campbell, 35, inflicted a gash on her head that required four stitches ..."
31 March 2006: Naomi Campbell arrested
The model Naomi Campbell was arrested yesterday after allegedly assaulting one of her staff.
The Telegraph has an interesting account of the catalogue of incidents reported between Naomi Campbell and her staff:
"In 2000 she pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to hitting another assistant, Georgina Galanis, 38, with a telephone and grabbing her by the throat while shooting a film in Toronto two years earlier.
"Last year Yvonne Scio, a former friend, claimed to have been punched and kicked by the model because of the outfit she was wearing.
"In November 2004 personal assistant Amie Castaldo, 31, claimed to have been head-butted and bitten by her employer.
"A few months earlier a disagreement between Campbell and her 44-year-old housemaid, Millicent Burton, ended in a fight with the pair rolling around on the floor in front of onlookers."
8 September 2005 Naomi Campbell donates fees to New Orleans
Vogue reported today that Campbell is offering her services to designers next week only if they donate her fee to the American Red Cross to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Naomi Campbell said: "It's awful to see what happened and watch grown men crying on TV because they have nothing left ... When I'm looking at this, it's like I'm looking at Africa or anywhere else in the world but here. It made me think about what I could do to help."
10 September 2004 - Naomi Campbell Goes Public about Drugs
Two years after winning her privacy action against the Mirror, and just a few months after the Lords overturned the Mirror's succesful Appeal, Naomi Campbell has told Michael Parkinson that she first took drugs 10 years ago.
"I did a drug, a speedy drug," she says in the show.
Parkinson asks whether it was like cocaine.
Campbell replies: "Uh-huh" before adding: "No one forced me to do it. I did it because I wanted to. I don't have any blame for anyone but myself."
"I go to (rehabilitation) meetings in every country I'm in ... I have a sponsor," she said. "When you stop drugs, you have to stop everything."
It's this last part that is of most interest when seen in the context of the case against The Mirror. Casting our minds back to that case, the judge said:
'The public had a need to know that Naomi Campbell had been misleading the public by her denials of drug addiction.
'And balanced and positive journalism demanded the public be told Miss Naomi Campbell was receiving therapy for her drug addiction.'
According to Piers Morgan, the Mirror's editor at the time:
" Apparently the offending words that brought us to this farcical court case were, 'Narcotics Anonymous', which is the world's most famous treatment centre for drug addiction... She has won the massive sum of £3,500, which by anybody's yardstick is an embarrassingly small, derisory sum of money.
In a seperate statement after the Lords ruling, Morgan said:
"This is a very good day for lying, drug-abusing prima donnas who want to have their cake with the media, and the right to then shamelessly guzzle it with their Cristal champagne."
By going on 'Parky' and declaring her history of drugs and drugs therapy is not Campbell actually confirming that the Mirror were right that the matter was one of national interest?
I must admit that I have little interest in the likes of Naomi Campbell, but then I am not the general public. No doubt many millions will tune in to Campbell's interview with Michael Parkinson and will be avidly peering at the screen, and listening to her every word.
Therefore, in this case, I have to put aside my instincts - which normally lean towards the individual's right to privacy. The crucial context in this particular case was expressed neatly by the original trial judge when he declared:
'I must consider Naomi Campbell's evidence with caution...She has shown herself over the years lacking in frankness and veracity with the media and manipulative and selective in what she has chosen to reveal about herself.
'I am satisfied that she lied on oath.'
In a week that saw the England football players refusing to give any interviews after their victory against Poland, because of the nature of the criticism from the media after their draw against Austria, perhaps celebrities in all walks of life are trying to assert themselves by sticking a finger up at the media.
The trouble is that many of them receive massive wage packets and sponsorship deals based on their media coverage. They may win the battles, but one suspects that the hacks will make sure they are just pyrhhic victories.