A Look Back At Naomi Campbell's Scandalous Life
One of the most famous supermodels in history, Naomi Campbell is back on the catwalk. She walked for the Versace fashion show at Milan Fashion Week
One of the most famous supermodels in history, 50-year-old Naomi Campbell is back on the catwalk. She walked for the Versace fashion show at Milan Fashion Week, and everyone was delighted with her appearance.
As soon as she got off the runway, she was hugged by Donatella Versace, and this is also the first fashion show Naomi walked after she became a mother.
Donatella and Naomi have been friends for many years, and she was also a close friend of the late Gianni Versace until his tragic murder in 1997.
Naomi Campbell grew up in Streatham, a poor southern suburb of London. She never met her father, and her mother Valerie, a professional dancer, was often absent for a long time, so little Naomi was mostly taken care of by her grandmothers and aunts.
Valerie was not the happiest that her daughter wants to be a model, but she agreed on the condition that she would not neglect school. And so the exotic beauty of British-Chinese-Jamaican descent began to climb irresistibly to the fashion Olympus. The rise was not easy at all, because the fashion world in those years preferred blue-eyed and blonde models with white skin, and Naomi Campbell's arrogant temper and sharp tongue were also not to the liking of the fashion establishment.
Right before Naomi's 16th birthday, she appeared on the cover of the British edition of Elle magazine, after which she was invited to Paris, where she arrived without money and jewelry because they were stolen on the way. In the French capital, she became the muse and favorite of Tunisian designer Azzedine Alaia. Naomi lived in his house and became close to great stars such as Tina Turner, Jerry Hall, and Grace Jones.
First black woman on the cover of Vogue
In December 1987, she was at the cover of the British edition of Vogue: she was the first black woman to be honored. The following summer, she broke through another racial barrier and, with the help of her friend and mentor Yves Saint Laurent, went down in history as the first black model on the cover of the French Vogue. Seeing new trends, Ana Wintour put Naomi Campbell on the cover of the September issue of American Vogue in 1989.
The “Elite” agency fired her, explaining that there was no money and prestige that would justify the abuse of staff and clients. She, of course, claimed that she resigned herself. Apart from being late for filming for hours, she did not stay away from physical confrontations. She once spat and hit a guard who didn't recognize her and let her go behind the stage of a U2 concert. In 2005, she beat up her longtime friend, the Italian actress Yvonne Scio, who ended up in hospital.
Violence problems
In 1998, she slapped her assistant Georgina Galanis, and in 2007 she hit the cleaning lady in the head with her Blackberry, all because she lost her eyelashes. The cleaning lady had stitches on her head, and the aggressive Naomi was punished with five days of community service - she collected garbage on the streets of New York, every day in a different haute couture combination.
She interpreted her own problems with illicit substances and aggression as a consequence of a traumatic childhood.
Bloody diamonds
She was banned from flying British Airways for five years because she went wild in 2008 because of lost luggage, and she spat at two police officers. The following summer, the rage of the Black Panther fell on a paparazzi who tried to film her in Sicily with his then partner, Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin, so she slapped him on the head with a bag and scratched his eye. Because of that attack, she was conditionally sentenced to six months in prison.
In front of the Hague tribunal in 2010, she had to justify her three "bloody" diamonds, which she received as a gift in 1997 from former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was later convicted of war crimes.
Her engagement to Adam Clayton, U2 bassist, broke up after a year. She used to say that Robert De Niro was her first true love, she wanted to have children with him, but with her jealous outbursts, she drove him away.
Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson's ex-husband, quickly cooled off from "a demanding girl who travels with 500 pairs of shoes and 82 dresses". She broke everything in the apartment of the Italian businessman Flavio Briatore at the end of the relationship.
Naomi's relationship with Mike Tyson was remembered for a hot episode from a party in New York: they locked themselves in the toilet and indulged in passions while his manager stood guard at the door. Kevin Costner, Lenny Kravitz, Sean Penn, Usher, Puff Daddy, and Hassan Jameel, the ex-boyfriend of singer Rihanna, are also on the list of men who have flown through Naomi Campbell's life.
Naomi ended her five-year relationship with the Russian billionaire in 2013, but it seems that all the past years were not enough to definitely put an end between Naomi Campbell and Vladislav Doronin. Although his fortune is worth billions, a Russian businessman recently decided to sue his ex-girlfriend. In return, he claims the millions he lent to Naomi during the relationship, claiming that the model never returned the money.
She recently surprised everyone when she revealed that she became a mother at the age of 51.
Of course, the questions only kept coming - did she give birth, or did she have the baby with the help of a surrogate mother, or did she adopt it. Although the model did not give any more specific information about the whole situation, numerous allegations about her love life appeared during the day.
