Posted on 03/30/2006 2:26:26 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
NAOMI Campbell has been charged with assaulting her housekeeper, New York police said after arresting the supermodel at her Park Avenue home today.
A police spokesman said Campbell had been charged with second degree assault and the housekeeper was taken to hospital after the incident. The spokesman had no further details on the woman's injuries.
Campbell, still one of the biggest names in fashion at the age of 35, was fingerprinted and photographed at a police station and was due to be taken to court later for arraignment, a police spokeswoman said.
Campbell's agent, Amanda Silverman, said in a statement: "We believe this is a case of retaliation, because Naomi had fired her housekeeper earlier this morning. We are confident the courts will see it the same way."
It was not the first time the British-born Campbell has had troubles with the law - in February 2000 she pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to assaulting her former assistant, and was given an absolute discharge, meaning her record was cleared.
After that incident, in which she assaulted her assistant Georgina Galanis with a telephone, she blamed her fiery temper on lingering resentment towards her father for abandoning her as a child.
Campbell, who grew up in South London, said that her father abandoned the family before she was born and her mother was often gone because she worked long hours to send her daughter to prestigious schools to study singing, drama and ballet.
"I've not always displayed my anger in the appropriate time," she said in a 2000 TV interview in which she said she had attended a US clinic to help manage her anger. "It's a manifestation of a deeper issue, I think. And that, to me, I think is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness."
Campbell has also admitted to drug use in the past. In 2004 she won a British court battle with a tabloid newspaper that was found to have invaded her privacy by running a story saying, correctly, that she had visited Narcotics Anonymous.
Spotted on the streets of London's Covent Garden when she was just 15, Campbell was the first black model to appear on the covers of the French and British editions of Vogue magazine. Nearly 20 years later she remains one of the biggest names in fashion, sought after by the top designers to grace their shows in New York, Paris and Milan.
She has also acted in several movies, tried her hand at singing and launched her own cosmetics range. She has also published a ghostwritten novel called Swan, about a supermodel who is blackmailed.
She must have thought she were a Democrat Congresswoman and therefore entitled to assault people without consequences now and then.
Maybe this is her way of announcing a run for the House...?
I read a book on the modeling industry some years ago and if I remember correctly Naomi is both volatile and has had drug problems in the past.
Was she tested for drugs?
.... How do y'all think the models keep so thin?!...hmmmm? Skin and bones, just skin and bones!
yech.
Of course, living on the Upper East Side myself, I googled in vain to learn WHERE on "Park Avenue" this delightful woman lives...
Didn't she go to an anger management class. I can see that worked. This is another stupid class these idiots think up so that we can falsely believe they are actually trying to help people.
Miss Campbell needs a swift kick to her rear end Then she needs to be hauled off to jail for assualt and made to accept the penatly for her actions.
And this is what young girls think they should look like. She is unobtainably thin for most women today unless they starve themselves or are sick. I do think that drugs play a big part in the model world. I hope the womanly figure comes back into style again someday!
You just can't get good help these days...
Naomi can hit me with a cell phone anytime she wants.
yikes....but she is not even pretty...and now she is AGING.
she might not even have the energy. OLD WITCH
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