Posted on 05/29/2008 9:33:23 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) - Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been charged with a string of offences after allegedly assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, her lawyer said Thursday.
Campbell, 37, was taken off a British Airways plane by officers on April 3 after she boarded a flight to Los Angeles in the United States and was told before takeoff that one of her bags was missing.
She is charged with five offences -- three counts of assaulting a constable, one of disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress and one of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cabin crew.
Campbell will appear in court in west London on June 20, her lawyer Simon Nicholls said, after she answered bail at Heathrow's police station.
If found guilty, she could face up to six months in prison and/or a fine of several thousand pounds.
"Miss Campbell is bitterly disappointed that the prosecutors have advised her she is to be prosecuted for various offences," Nicholls said in a statement read out on her behalf outside the police station.
"She respects that decision and she hopes this matter is dealt with expeditiously."
The incident took place as Campbell was travelling through the airport's new Terminal 5 building, whose high-profile opening in March was marred by serious problems with the baggage handling system.
Last year, the supermodel was ordered to spend a week mopping floors at a New York City warehouse for hitting her maid with a mobile phone.
She was sentenced in January 2007 after pleading guilty to reckless assault, and also ordered to attend a two-day anger management course and cover her victim's medical expenses.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell poses as she arrives to attend the screening of US director Steven Soderbergh's film 'Che' at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 21. Campbell has been charged with a string of offences after allegedly assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, her lawyer has said. (AFP/File/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)
Supermodel? Supermeathead.
Rules violation - Mention of “Supermodel” in title without, well, you know.
Is this b!tch going to have to kill someone before she ever spends a day behind bars?
Even then, she would hire some fancy lawyer to get her out of it - just like OJ did.
Justice is only for the rich anymore.
She can always claim she’s a victim of ‘Terminal 5’ syndrome, a lot of folks were losing stuff including their cool when that place opened.
They’re scraping the bottom of the “Supermodel” barrel, seems like.
Naomi Campbell: the rotten fruit of beauty’s adulation.
Just one more free service offered by the British Airways... Bags get lost but I question why you would want to do that BEFORE the flight even leaves...
Easy to solve: all airlines should refuse to sell tickets to Naomi Campbell. Let her take a cruise ship between continents.
At 37, Naomi is fast approaching the age of irrelevant in the modeling business.
To quote someone I once knew, “I’d like to buy her for what she’s worth, and sell her for what she THINKS she’s worth.”
She better hope she won’t have to meet all the “little people” she has stepped on making her way up the ladder on her fast and graceless glide back down it.
Too bad there wasn’t a stewarde....er...female crew member available to break the diva’s nose for her.
She needs to understand in an immediate and direct and personal way that some behaviors aren’t acceptable. A lesson she should have learned in kindergarten, but obviously failed to grasp.
No special privileges for celebrities.
Jail.
When is Steven Soderbergh’s film ‘Che’ coming out?
I really can’t wait to see that one.
How’d you like to be the personal assisitant that’s holding the mirror the morning she sees she’s her first wrinkle?
>>>>>Too bad there wasn’t a stewarde....er...female crew member available to break the diva’s nose for her.<<<<<<<<
Thats what I think is the root of all people’s behavior when they are rude and have a crappy attitude towards others. They simply haven’t been rude to the right person yet....or the wrong person, I should say.
Or as my Pop would have said, “That boy ain’t never had a asswhoopin.”
Is she Obama’s sister-in-law? Just figured it ran in that family.
Last night Leno talked about Karma catching up Naomi Campbell: he said there are reports that she is having problems with her hair falling out! I did a search this morning and found several links reporting that fact. Isn’t it funny how the universe (or the Hand guiding the universe) just seems to take care of itself?
Her hairs probably falling out from the stress of her being such a hothead!
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