Naomi Campbell
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Streatham, South London, 22 May 2020
Naomi admits she tooks drugs - 12/02/02
Naomi Campbell has jetted back into London for a legal showdown with The Mirror newspaper. The 31-year-old Streatham supermodel is sueing the paper for breach of confidence and/or unlawful invasion of privacy after it published a photograph of her leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting a year ago. The newspaper said Naomi had been receiving regular counselling in a "courageous bid to beat her addiction to drink and drugs". The model flew in from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has been at London’s High Court. She had been in Rio for the annual carnival celebrations and spent last week learning the samba at a Portela dancing school. But she cancelled a scheduled appearance in today’s big Rio parade to make her return to Britain.
Naomi admitted in court on Monday that she had illegally used drugs but says the Mirror newspaper invaded her privacy and breached her confidence when it published the photo last year, alongside an article describing how she had sought counselling for a drug problem. She admitted she’d used illegal drugs and had then sought treatment. "I knew that it was wrong and had damaged me and I decided to try and sort myself out," she told the court. She also said she felt "shocked, angry, betrayed and violated" by the article, headlined: "Naomi: I am a drug addict."
Campbell’s lawyer, Andrew Caldecott, said the model had attended meetings of Narcotics Anonymous, often on a daily basis amd that her attendance "was a clearly private activity deserving of privacy." The newspaper’s publisher, MGN Limited, denies wrongdoing. The Mirror’s lawyer, Desmond Browne, said the newspaper only revealed the truth about Campbell’s drug use, which she had denied publicly. "To the world at large, Miss Campbell sacrificed her right to anonymity by using illegal drugs and claiming she was drug free," he said.
Naomi popstar wannabe-again! -26/04/01
Naomi’s previous attempt at pop was so dismal you would have thought it would make her never want to pick up a mike, well that’s wishful thinking, as that is exactly what she will be doing.
Naomi Campbell is aiming to relaunch her singing career with a cover version of disco hit Santa Maria the single is a Euro-disco hit from the pen of 1980s pop composers Mike Stock and Matt Aitken. Aparently the same song was covered by page 3 babe Samantha Fox, classy or what!!
Naomi stick to what you do best!!
Naomi also alongside supermodel Elle McPherson are hosting the Miss World Awards taking place May 11 in Puerto Rico.
Naomi tumbles off golf cart 26/03/01
Sulky supermodel Naomi Campbell is bruised and battered - after crashing her golf cart in the Bahamas yesterday.
The British clotheshorse crashed into a tree at the Pink Sands Hotel on Harbour Island while doing a golf-themed photoshoot. Hotel manager Clemens Merveldt says, "She was leaving anyway. She had bruises, but she was walking by herself. I think she’ll live."
Naomi Denies Ban 22/02/01
Naomi Campbell has slammed reports she’s been banned from a London fashion store as a publicity stunt. The temperamental supermodel has reacted with her customary fury to reports that she’s been barred from the trendy Voyage shop after throwing a tantrum. Campbell insists she’s never been a member of the frock shop and hasn’t even been in the store for six months - and accuses the owners, the Mazzilli family, of fabricating the story in retaliation for being barred from her boyfriend Flavio Briatore’s Sardinian nightclub.
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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)
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