We know someone who’s having the worst week ever.
First, shots of Naomi Campbell came out during a Dennis Basso New York photo-shoot of her bald patch from extensive wig/weave use. And now, the Britain-bred model is facing the high courts of Liberia. Judges summoned her to court today in an investigation against warlord, President Charles Taylor. Ratted out by fellow model, Mia Farrow, Campbell was allegedly given a “huge diamond’ by Taylor’s men at a 1997 dinner at Nelson Mandela’s home.
According to ABC News:
Campbell has thus far refused to testify in the case against the ex-warlord Taylor though prosecutors say her testimony goes to the heart of their case. If she fails to appear as ordered, the court can find her in contempt. A date has yet to be set for her to appear at the trial.
In the wake of an ABC News report on the alleged “blood diamond,” Campbell’s former agent Carole White revealed to prosecutors that she was present when Campbell received several diamonds from Taylor that night.
//White’s lawyer, Daniel Bright, told ABC News that White overheard Taylor telling Campbell at the dinner that he wanted to give her diamonds. Later, according to Bright, when the representatives of Taylor came to the guest house in the middle of the night they threw pebbles at the windows. They hit White’s window with the pebbles and she reluctantly let them into the house. White allegedly then watched the men give about a “half-dozen” uncut gems to Campbell.
According to Bright, White remembers Campbell being disappointed with the stones, since she had not expected them to be uncut. Bright said that White claims she convinced Campbell to dispose of the stones the next day, and that she gave them to an unnamed third individual.
It’s all super sketchy, but we do know one thing: Never accept large pieces jewelry from warlords that run a country known as a “blood diamond” territory.
