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Naomi Campbell pleads guilty in NYC to assault

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-01-17 09:21




Supermodel Naomi Campbell arrives for her court appearance in New York
January 16, 2007. Campbell pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court on
Tuesday to assaulting her housekeeper with a mobile phone and was
sentenced to five days community service. [Reuters/Keith Bedford]

NEW YORK - Supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal
Court on Tuesday to assaulting her housekeeper with a mobile telephone
and was sentenced to five days of community service.

Campbell, who appeared in court in black pants, gray tweed
double-breasted jacket and dark sunglasses, was also fined $363 and
ordered to attend anger management classes after pleading guilty to
third-degree assault.

The British beauty was initially charged in March 2006 with second-degree
assault and faced up to seven years in prison.

Prosecutors said in court documents Campbell threw the phone at Ana
Scolavino, 42, during a dispute over a pair of jeans. They said the phone
hit the woman in the back of her head, opening a wound that required four
staples to close.

Campbell did not comment as she left court.

Campbell, 36, is no stranger to controversy and has blamed her hot temper
on lingering resentment toward her father for abandoning her as a child.

In June, a second maid, Gaby Gibson, said the celebrity struck her in the
head. She has also filed a civil lawsuit accusing Campbell of personal
injury, employment discrimination, civil assault and battery.

In July, former assistant Amanda Black also sued Campbell, saying she was
subjected to a series of "verbal, physical and emotional attacks" by the
model shortly after she was hired by her in February of 2005.

Campbell was arrested in October in London on suspicion of assault after
a woman alleged she had been attacked at a London residence. Campbell's
spokesman said the model had done nothing wrong and there had been a
misunderstanding.

In February 2000, she pleaded guilty in a Canadian court for assaulting
another former assistant with a telephone. In that case she paid the
assistant an undisclosed amount of money and attended anger management
classes.

Spotted on the streets of London's Covent Garden tourist area when she
was 15, Campbell was the first black model to the grace covers of French
and British Vogue.

She has acted in several films, co-wrote a novel and launched her own
cosmetics products.











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