Banned as charity trustee
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In September 2024, Campbell was banned from serving as a charity trustee in the UK for five years after the investigation found "multiple instances of misconduct and / or mismanagement" including that between April 2016 and July 2022, Fashion for Relief spent only 8.5% of its income on charitable grants, while making unauthorised payments to other trustees and advisors.
[103] These included paying for Campbell's stay at a five-star hotel in Cannes, France, as well as spa treatments, room service, security and cigarettes.
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The charity was reported to the Charity Commission after Fashion for Relief held an event at the British Museum in 2019 claimed to be held in partnership with
Unicef. Unicef said it was unaware of the event, was never a partner of Fashion for Relief, and received no money from the charity. Question was also raised as to why Campbell was described as a Unicef "envoy" when she held no official role with Unicef.
[106] Save the Children Fund and the Mayor's Fund for London also made complaints to the commission over the charity's failure to fully pay them proceeds from events held in 2017 and 2018. A sum of £345,000 has since been recovered from the charity and donated to the two organisations.
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Convictions for assault
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Campbell has been convicted of assault on four occasions between 1998 and 2009.
[21] In September 1998 she was convicted of assaulting her personal assistant.
[109][110] She pleaded guilty to assaulting her former housekeeper in January 2007.
[20][111] She attended her community service wearing designer outfits, including fedoras, furs and a silver-sequinned $300,000
Dolce & Gabbana gown upon completion of her sentence.
[14][20] Campbell detailed her community service experience in a
W feature titled "The Naomi Diaries", and subsequently spoofed herself in a
Dunkin' Donuts commercial, directed by
Zach Braff.
[20] In June 2008 she was sentenced for assaulting two police officers at
London Heathrow Airport.
[112][113][14] In July 2015 she was found guilty of assaulting a
paparazzo in Rome.
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Testimony for blood diamond case
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In August 2010, Campbell made an appearance at a trial against former Liberian president
Charles Taylor, where she was called to give evidence on "
blood diamonds" she received from Taylor in
Cape Town, South Africa in 1997.
[135] Campbell testified that the diamonds were given to her as a gift by unknown men that she assumed were sent by Taylor.
[136] She later gave the diamonds to Jeremy Ractliffe, the then director of the
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, as a donation to charity. Suspecting they were illegal, Ractliffe never donated them and kept them in his possession. On 5 August 2010, South African police seized the diamonds from him.
[137][138] Campbell was never charged due to her lack of criminal intent