Topic: Fashion Celebrities

South African Mandela charity ex-chief cuts ties over supermodel and warlord diamond scandalThe ex-chief of a Nelson Mandela charity is cutting ties with the organization because of a scandal involving a supermodel and a warlord. The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund said Wednesday ...

Naomi Campbell says "nothing to gain" from diamonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Supermodel Naomi Campbell said she had nothing to gain from being untruthful in her testimony about alleged "blood diamonds" and said suggestions she did not care about suffering in Africa were hurtful. In a statement issued five days after ...
Can Naomi Campbell shake off the taint of her alleged `blood diamond' link?Naomi Campbell's swagger is what powers her runway strut, and it's unlikely another few uncomfortable days of attention over her testimony in the Charles Taylor war-crimes trial will change that. ...
One of Naomi Campbell's public relations team said Wednesday that her appearance at Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor's war crimes trial aimed to be as "low-key, respectful and unfussy" as possible. Neil Wallis of The Outside Organisation said most journalists who covered the ...

Sierra Leoneans regret focus on Campbell testimony

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leoneans expressed regret Wednesday at the spotlight that has been trained on their bloody past by the courtroom appearances of model Naomi Campbell at a war crimes trial last week. Prosecutors called Campbell to testify in the trial ...

Supermodel Campbell defends war crimes testimony

Supermodel Naomi Campbell denied giving false testimony at the war crimes trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor, insisting she had "nothing to gain". "I've no motive here. Nothing to gain," she said in a statement released in London Tuesday. The model defended ...
Supermodel Naomi Campbell insisted Tuesday she had "nothing to gain" from providing false testimony at the war crimes trial of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor about suspected blood diamonds. "I've no motive here. Nothing to gain," she said in a statement released in ...
Supermodel Naomi Campbell insisted Tuesday she had "nothing to gain" from her testimony at the war crimes trial of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor. "I've no motive here. Nothing to gain," she said in a statement released in London. Her comments came after ...
Correction: War Crimes-Taylor-South AfricaIn an Aug. 6 story, BC-War Crimes-Taylor-South Africa, from Johannesburg, about the war crimes tribunal against former Liberian president Charles Taylor, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a man to whom model Naomi Campbell gave some stones. It ...
US actress Mia Farrow said Monday that Naomi Campbell had named Charles Taylor as the man who sent a "huge diamond" to the supermodel's room in 1997, during testimony in the Liberian ex-president's war crimes trial. "She (Campbell) said that in the ...
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