Naomi Campbell Saved By Benny Hill

Naomi Campbell escaped a police probe over an alleged attack on her driver - after cops decided she merely gave the motorist a playful "Benny Hill"-style slap.

The supermodel was spared a full investigation into the incident in New York on Tuesday after chauffeur Miodrag Mejdina refused to press charges.

And U.K. newspaper The Sun suggests the case was dropped because police decided the alleged slap was not malicious, comparing Campbell to legendary British funnyman Hill, who would famously slap a sidekick's bald head.

A spokesman for the New York Police Department tells the publication, "You know how Benny Hill used to run around slapping people around the head - well, that's all she did to him."



Campbell had offered to "co-operate voluntarily" with police after Mejdina alleged he was left with "bumps and bruises" following a confrontation in midtown Manhattan.

But the chauffeur later withdrew his complaint and cops have dropped the investigation.


(Wenn)


Why couldn't they find an excuse like this when she threw a jewel encrusted cell phone at her maid a few years ago? She had to mop the floors of NYC's Sanitation Department as punishment. It's amazing if you really dig into her track record. Further back in March 2005 Naomi supposedly slapped and beat an assistant on the head with her BlackBerry! Then in October 2006 the model was arrested for scratching.

Model’s Blood Diamond Center Of War Crimes Trial

British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been caught up in the war crimes trial of Liberia's former president - the disgraced ex-leader has been accused of gifting the catwalk beauty with a 'blood diamond'.

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor is currently on trial at The Hague, in the Netherlands, over allegations he backed rebel fighters responsible for widespread atrocities during the war in neighboring Sierra Leone.

Prosecutors have also alleged Taylor took diamonds mined in the area to South Africa to "sell... or exchange for weapons".

They have accused Taylor of handing one of these 'blood diamonds' - a term for jewels sold to finance conflicts - to Campbell in 1997 when she attended a dinner party in South Africa, hosted by then-president Nelson Mandela.

Prosecutor Brenda Hollis put the allegations to the court when cross-examining Taylor: "From among those diamonds that you took to South Africa, after this dinner that you attended you sent your men to Ms. Campbell's room to provide her with a large diamond. That diamond that you sent to Naomi Campbell was one of the diamonds that you had been given by the junta (board of military leaders) in Sierra Leone."

Taylor denied he had given Campbell the gem, branding the claims "nonsense".

Hollywood actress Mia Farrow, who also attended the star-studded dinner, has been listed as a witness in his ongoing trial after prosecutors alleged Campbell told her about the diamond.

A spokesperson for Naomi Campbell insists the supermodel has cooperated with the prosecution: "Naomi has been assisting the special prosecutor where possible, but beyond that has nothing to add."

Taylor, 61, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from the brutal 1991-2001 civil war in Sierra Leone.


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Naomi Campbell’s Fashion Runway Nip

Naomi Campbell does her model thing for the Spring/Summer 2010 Ready To Wear Chapurin line for Paris Fashion Week in France on October 3, 2009.


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