Naomi Campbell
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Streatham, South London, 22 May 2020
"As the plaintiff was descending an interior stairway within the apartment in an effort to leave the premises, she was placed in imminent apprehension of physical harm and was then intentionally struck in the head with a cell (mobile) phone by the defendant," the suit alleges.
Naomi’s lawyer David Breitbart said he had no comment on the civil suit, which he had been expecting.
Naomi admits attacking maid - Jan 16 2007
Supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of reckless assault.
Following a plea bargain with prosecutors at Manhattan Criminal Court, New York, she was sentenced to five days’ community service and a two-day anger management course, and ordered to pay medical bills of 363.33 dollars for her injured housekeeper, who was hurt when Naomi threw a mobile phone.
In court, the beautiful model admitted throwing the phone in her Park Avenue apartment but said she did not intend for it to hit maid Ana Scolavino, who needed four stitches after the incident.
She said: "I am advised that Ana was hurt, and I am deeply sorry about that."
Sporting a short bobbed haircut with a fringe, and wearing a pencil skirt, 4in heels and a voluminous Louis Vuitton jacket, Naomi told the judge: "I have an apartment at 500 Park Avenue.
"Ana Scolavino was an employee of mine.
"During the morning of March 30, 2006, I threw a cellphone in the apartment.
"The cellphone hit Ana.
"That was an accident because I did not intend to hit her."
The British model’s lawyer, David Breitbart, asked that her community service be an indoor task rather than something like sweeping the streets. This was for her safety, he explained.
Judge Robert Mandelbaum said he would note the request.
Assistant District Attorney Shanda Strain said: "If that’s what is available at the time she goes to do the community service that is acceptable."
Outside court, Mr Breitbart said his client had been "very anxious to get this over".
Supermodel in court on assault charge - Jan 16 2007
Supermodel Naomi Campbell will appear in court in New York today over allegations she threw a mobile phone at her housekeeper’s head.
Prosecutors have been trying to agree on a plea bargain with her lawyer over the second degree assault charge, which the catwalk star has denied.
After she last appeared in court, in November, her defence lawyer David Breitbart indicated that she could accept a community service punishment, but was not keen on sweeping the streets like Boy George was ordered to.
The task had to be something "palatable" such as fund-raising for cancer or Aids research where she would not be mobbed by media, Mr Breitbart told reporters.
Naomi, 36, was arrested in March after her maid, Ana Scolavino, claimed she threw a mobile phone at her after accusing her of stealing the jeans she wanted to wear to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show.
Police said Mrs Scolavino needed four stitches after the alleged attack.
The model could face up to seven years in prison and deportation if she is convicted.
When former Culture Club singer Boy George turned up for litter-picking duties with New York’s Sanitation Department earlier this year he was trailed by a huge press pack.
He was handed the sentence after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city.
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She was raised by her grandparents since her mother, the ambitious Valerie, was making her way around the world with an exotic dance troupe. At 13, precocious Naomi started at the Italia Conti stage school. Two years later she was ’discovered’ in Covent Garden by a modelling scout.
Recently, she has been seeking anger therapy - her American agency fired her on the grounds that she was ’unbearable’ and published the following statement: ’No amount of money or prestige could further justify the abuse she has imposed on our staff and clients.’ She recently pleaded guilty to assaulting her assistant with the mobile phone she normally keeps clamped to her ear. Naomi had a top 10 hit with Babywoman in Japan and has a reputation for being always late.
She has been romanced by a string of men including Mike Tyson, Robert De Niro, Joaquin Cortes and was rumoured to have had a fling with Joseph Fiennes. She is currently dating Italian millionaire Flavio Briatore.
As well as modelling and a stab at a music career she has also penned a novel entitled Swan (1995) and has appeared in the film Pret-a-Porter, she also appeared in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous and once was a pupil in Grange Hill. Naomi has also just launched her own perfume. She also has an apartment in Chelsea. (written 2001)
October 2007