Naomi Campbell
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Streatham, South London, 22 May 2020
McCarthy said the model subsequently assaulted Brack on several occasions in 2005 in Brazil, in Morocco and in Naomi’s apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
Naomi on Cannes red carpet - May 23 2007
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has made a glamorous red carpet appearance - weeks after completing community service by cleaning toilets. See photos of Naomi’s community service
The 37-year-old supermodel was joined by Claudia Schiffer at the Cannes Film Festival premiere.
Naomi recently completed five days community service in New York for hitting former housekeeper Anna Scolavino on the head.
While inside the New York Sanitation Department she was scrubbing floors, outside she kept the world captivated by her daily change into eye-popping outfits.
The catwalk star recently said she had found solace in cleaning.
Naomi has been attempting to transform her image after following a series of negative publicity over her temper.
Campbell tells of sweeping ’solace’ - May 7 2007
Supermodel Naomi Campbell found "solace in sweeping" during her community service sentence for throwing a mobile phone which hit her maid’s head, according to US reports.
See photos of Naomi’s community service
The catwalk star, who spent five days mopping, sweeping and scrubbing toilets in Manhattan, wrote a diary of her days carrying out the sentence in which she talks about taking responsibility for her actions and bonding with her co-workers.
Extracts of the diary entries, which will appear in the next edition of W magazine on Friday, were published in the New York Post.
The 36-year-old wrote: "I find solace in sweeping. I have no other responsibility. I have no phone. I have the time to think. Just have, you know, peace."
She wrote: "As we were working, one of my co-workers tells me how he ended up here, which was basically because of alcohol. I bond with him, and I tell him I’m in recovery."
The supermodel tells how she first sought treatment for her addictions in 1999 but "never really looked into myself, deep below the surface".
She added: "What I came to realise is that I had to surrender. I’m such a controlling person, but I had to just let go and let something higher than me be in control of my destiny. You have to let yourself become vulnerable again.
"Some people can handle a drink or a line of cocaine, but I’ve finally come to realise that, for me, it’s all or nothing - and it has to be nothing. And my life has changed since."
Campbell describes how she was proud of her work at the sanitation department facility at Pier 36 in Manhattan, New York, and how she got to know her co-workers, including a man called Marc who worked on Wall Street and offered to carry her bag for her on the third day.
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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)
November 2007