
Former supermodel Naomi Campbell was forced to testify at the war crime trial of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor at The Hague in the Netherlands last week. Naomi reportedly got blood diamonds from the dictator back in 2007 and even bragged about it to actress Mia Farrow, who ended up “exposing” the model.
On that night in 1997, Naomi says that she had been sleeping when “two men” knocked on her door and “and gave me a pouch and said: ‘A gift for you.’…I opened the pouch the next morning when I woke up… I saw a few stones in there, they were very small dirty-looking stones… The next morning at breakfast I told Ms [Mia] Farrow and [her former agent Carol White] what had happened and one of the two said ‘That’s obviously Charles Taylor’, and I said ‘I guess that was’.”
Naomi claims she had no knowledge of the origin of the diamonds in question and denied to have been seated next to Charles Taylor at a dinner for Mandela. Naomi said she was seated next to Mandela and Quincy Jones, but several witnesses including her former manager, Carole White, testified she was seated next to Taylor.
Naomi and Taylor “were mildly flirtatious with each other throughout the dinner” and that is when he promised to send her some diamonds, which were mostly used war criminals as payment in exchange for weapons to use in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Naomi received the uncut diamonds and, then claimed to have given then to Jeremy Ratcliffe, who ran the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.
The Fund denies ever receiving such a donation, claiming they “never received a diamond or diamonds from Ms Campbell or from anyone else. It would have been improper and illegal to have done so.” Naomi cried out she didn’t know Taylor, didn’t want to be there and has no idea where are those diamonds.
Mia Farrow took the stand on Monday (August 9) to basically call Naomi a liar. Mia revealed that in the morning after that dinner, when she was eating breakfast with her children, Naomi told her all about the diamond lavish gift she had been given by Taylor. Naomi was pretty excited and she knew exactly where it had come from, Mia said.
Naomi and Mia gave completely different version of events. And there is one burning question: where are those blood diamonds? Naomi probably used them to make some pieces of jewelry… it would have been pretty ironic if she had actually worn them while she was testifying.
Anyway, the existence of this blood diamonds are proof that Taylor had been trading firearms to rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone during that country’s civil war from 1991 to 2002. If it is proven Naomi was lying, she will be prosecuted for perjury. We are talking about a war crimes trial. It does not look good for Naomi.
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