Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is a British model. Campbell started her career in the 1980s and soon appeared on the catwalks of Milan and Paris as well as on the cover pages of internationally renowned fashion magazines. She is also known for perfumes associated with her name, and for a series of legal issues.
Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell, is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent. In accordance with her mother’s wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who left then-18-year-old Valerie two months after the birth of their daughter. He was unnamed on a birth certificate and neither Campbell nor her mother has ever publicly revealed his identity.
Having never met her biological father, Campbell says that she regards Quincy Jones and Chris Blackwell as adopted father figures and Nelson Mandela as an adopted grandfather.
Campbell has never married. In summer 2008, a number of news reports said that Campbell was going to marry Russian real estate entrepreneur Vladislav Doronin and therefore accept the Russian Orthodox faith.
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Campbell’s successful modelling career, in some respects unprecedented for a black model, made her one of the most recognisable and in-demand models of her generation. During the so-called supermodel era of the early 1990s, she was part of the “Big Six”, alongside Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss, and “The Trinity”, alongside Turlington and Evangelista. On an episode of reality show America’s Next Top Model, friend and former alleged rival Tyra Banks once described Campbell’s body as one of the “best in the business.”
Campbell’s first public appearance came at age 7 in February 1978 when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video for Bob Marley’s song “Is This Love?”. In 1982, she appeared in another music video, this time as a tap dancer for Culture Club’s “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”.
At age 15 Campbell was spotted by Beth Boldt, a former Ford model and head of the Synchro model agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden. Campbell soon opted to become a fulltime model, signing with Elite Model Management. Campbell started her career as a catwalk model and was quickly hired for various high-profile advertising campaigns, including Lee Jeans and Olympus Corporation, which introduced her to the American market. Campbell also completed campaigns for Ralph Lauren and François Nars. At age 15 in April 1986, Campbell appeared on the cover of Elle, replacing model Veronica Webb who had cancelled out of the appearance.
In August 1988, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Paris as the publication’s first black cover girl, after friend and mentor, Yves St. Laurent, threatened to withdraw all of his advertising from the publication after it refused to place Campbell, or any black model, on its cover. In addition to Vogue Paris, Campbell also became the second black model after Donyale Luna to appear on the cover of Vogue UK (replacing fellow black model Veronica Webb who apparently declined to work with the magazine), Vogue Nippon, Time magazine and later Vogue China. She has also posed nude for Playboy and appeared in Madonna’s 1992 book Sex, in a set of photos with Madonna and rapper Big Daddy Kane. Campbell has appeared on over 500 magazine covers such as Vogue Italia, Japanese Vogue, Elle, i-D, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, W, Vanity Fair and GQ.
She starred in George Michael’s music video “Freedom! ’90″, where she lip-synched to his song along with Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz. In 1992, Campbell appeared in Madonna’s music video for “Erotica”, which featured filmed footage from photoshoots for the book Sex. In addition to the previously mentioned music videos, Campbell has appeared in videos for artists such as Michael Jackson, Nelly, Jagged Edge, Jay-Z, P.Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G., Macy Gray, Prince and Usher.
In 1991, Campbell was featured on Vanilla Ice’s single “Cool as Ice”. Three years later, she sang on the track “Heaven’s Girl” on Quincy Jones’s album Q’s Jook Joint. Also in 1991, she appeared as Michael Jackson’s love interest in his music video for “In the Closet”.
In 1995, Campbell released her debut album, Baby Woman, which produced the unsuccessful single “Love and Tears”. Campbell’s 1994 novel Swan told the tale of a supermodel being blackmailed over dark secrets in her past. In 1999, Campbell developed a spin-off company, the Design House of Naomi Campbell. So far, Campbell has created several fragrances for women, most of which were released in Europe. Campbell has been in films since childhood. Her film appearances include Girl 6 (1996), Prisoner of Love (1999), and Fat Slags (2004). She has also made cameo appearances as herself in such films as Pret a Porter (1994) and Ali G Indahouse (2001).
Since 1997, Campbell has been involved in charity work mainly focused on the people of Sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked with Nelson Mandela, and has said that one of her greatest joys in life is knowing Mandela, stating that his kindness, passion and intelligence make him a modern world leader. In 2005, she helped create and participated in Fashion for Relief, raising over a million dollars for Hurricane Katrina victims. In July 2010, she was selected by the international UNESCO committee to receive the “Pyramide Con Mani” Award for her outstanding social commitments.
In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant. Campbell had allegedly assaulted Georgina Galanis with a telephone in a hotel room and threatened to throw her out of a moving Peugeot. In March 2005, Campbell allegedly slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beat her around the head with a BlackBerry personal organiser. On 30 March 2006 in New York City, Campbell was arrested for allegedly assaulting her housekeeper with a jewel-encrusted mobile phone, resulting in a bloody head that required several stitches. On 25 October 2006, Campbell was arrested in London on suspicion of assault; she was released on police bail. On 14 November 2006, another former Campbell housekeeper, Gaby Gibson, began a new court case against Campbell seeking unspecified damages, and accused her ex-employer of being a “violent super-bigot”. On 15 November 2006, Campbell appeared in criminal court in New York City regarding her March 2006 assault charges. The Boston-based law firm Sullivan & Worcester, which had assigned a top litigator to defend Campbell throughout her many escapades, severed their relationship with Campbell in 2006, allegedly stating publicly that Campbell was a danger to everyone around her.
On 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her housekeeper Ana Scolavino. She was sentenced to five days community service and ordered to attend two days of an anger management course. In addition, she was ordered to pay medical bills of $363 (£185) to Scolavino who required four stitches after the incident. According to a report on CNN, Campbell blames her temper “on lingering resentment toward her father for abandoning her as a child”.
On 3 April 2008, Campbell was arrested inside Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after one of her bags had been lost. Campbell was subsequently banned from flying globally with British Airways by the airline. She was charged with three counts of assaulting a constable, one count of disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, and one count of using threatening, abusive words or behaviour towards cabin crew. On 20 June 2008, Campbell pleaded guilty to four of the five charges against her, while the Crown Prosecution Service dropped one of the counts of assaulting a constable. Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Campbell also alleged that British Airways staff called her a “golliwogg supermodel” in the incident.
On 2 March 2010, Campbell’s limousine driver filed a report with the New York City Police Department claiming that Campbell had slapped and punched him. She then allegedly fled the scene. A spokesman for Campbell said “there shouldn’t be a rush to judgement” and said she would co-operate voluntarily. Investigators initially sought to question Campbell, but police decided to drop the matter after the driver chose not to pursue criminal charges. -Wikipedia
