Naomi Campbell
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. On 7 July 2007 she hosted the South African leg of Live Earth in Johannesburg. Campbell has several adopted father figures, including Quincy Jones and Chris Blackwell, and an adopted grandfather, Nelson Mandela. In the summer of 2008 a number of news reports reported that Campbell was going to marry Russian real estate entrepreneur Vladislav Doronin and therefore accept the Russian Orthodox faith. 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 2000, Campbell introduced her first perfumes, Naomi Campbell and Naomagic. Naomi Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is an English model of Jamaican descent. Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England.
Campbell s latest fragrance is a new version of her Cat Deluxe perfume called Cat Deluxe at Night. Campbell has been in films since childhood,debuting in a Children s Film Foundation serial The Chiffy Kids in 1976, playing a character named Snow White .Her other 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.
In 1992, Campbell appeared in Madonna s music video for Erotica , which featured filmed footage from photoshoots for the book Sex. In July 2006, Brack began legal proceedings against Campbell, claiming Campbell abused her verbally and physically on three continents.
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. At age 10, she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy stage school, where she studied ballet.
Under an agreement with the prosecution, her record was cleared in exchange for her expressing remorse; Campbell also paid Galanis an undisclosed sum and agreed to attend anger management classes. In March 2004, the House of Lords overturned a Court of Appeal judgement and awarded Campbell damages in the amount of £3,500, upholding an earlier judgement that her right to privacy had been infringed following publication of photographs of her leaving a Narcotics Anonymous clinic. In March 2005, Campbell allegedly slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beat her around the head with a BlackBerry personal organiser. 1 hit in Japan, with the single selling approximately 1,856,000 copies. Campbell s 1994 novel Swan told the tale of a supermodel being blackmailed over dark secrets in her past.
Laurent, threatened to withdraw all of his advertising from the publication after it refused to place Campbell, or any black model, on its cover. Campbell s collaboration with Toshinobu Kubota, La La La Love Song , the second single from Baby Woman and the theme song to Long Vacation, became a No.
Although panned by critics and a commercial flop in the UK, where it failed to chart higher than 75, Baby Woman was a success in Japan and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. I always have to work harder to be treated equally. Campbell is signed to IMG Models (New York City), Storm Model Management (London), Marilyn Agency (Paris), and D management Group (Milan). In 1991, Campbell was featured on Vanilla Ice s single Cool as Ice .
A year later a fifth fragrance was made, Sunset, and in 2005 another fragrance was released, Paradise Passion. Campbell soon opted to become a fulltime model, signing with Elite Model Management.
In 1995, Campbell released her debut album, Baby Woman, which produced the unsuccessful single Love and Tears . Three years later, she sang on the track Heaven s Girl on Quincy Jones s album Q s Jook Joint.
In 2005, she helped create and participated in Fashion Relief, raising over a million dollars for Hurricane Katrina victims. Campbell countersued for an unknown amount. 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 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her housekeeper Ana Scolavino.
Brack accused Campbell of assault, battery, and infliction of emotional distress in incidents that started a month after she began working for her in February 2005. 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.
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. The high point of Campbell s career was in the early 1990s, when she was part of the two major supermodel powerhouses: the Big Six, alongside Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss, and The Trinity, alongside Turlington and Evangelista. In 2008, when talking about the model profession, she said: Models need to earn their stripes - I just think the term is used a little too loosely. At age 15 in April 1986, Campbell appeared on the cover of Elle, replacing a model who had cancelled out of the appearance. In August 1988, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Paris as that publication s first black cover girl, after friend and mentor, Yves St.
In 2001, Campbell introduced her third perfume, Cat Deluxe, and in 2003 released Mystery. In accordance with her mother s wishes, Campbell has never met her unnamed Chinese Jamaican father, who left then-18-year-old Valerie two months after the birth of their daughter. As a young child, Campbell was left in the care of a nanny while her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica.
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 and while still a student at the Italia Conti Academy, Campbell was spotted by Beth Boldt, a former Ford model and head of the Synchro music agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden. Campbell s spokesman Rob Shuter denied the incident ever took place.
In total, Campbell has appeared on more than 100 magazine covers. She famously starred in George Michael s music video Freedom! 90 , where she lip-synched to his song along with fellow supermodels Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz. Campbell also completed campaigns for Ralph Lauren and François Nars.
In addition, she was ordered to pay medical bills of $363 (£185) to Scolavino who required four stitches after the incident. 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. The novel was actually ghostwritten by author Caroline Upcher, In 1996, Campbell released a photo collection titled Naomi, featuring pictures of Campbell taken by Richard Avedon and other leading fashion photographers. In 1999, Campbell developed a spin-off company, the Design House of Naomi Campbell.
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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.
Her mother, Valerie Campbell (née Morris), is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent. Also in 1991, she appeared as Michael Jackson s love interest in his music video for In the Closet .
She was sentenced to five days community service and ordered to attend two days of an anger management course. Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele In 2009, Campbell gained a lot of attention after she dubbed the fashion industry as racist. In an interview with Glamour magazine, Campbell was quoted as saying You know, the American president may be black, but as black woman, I am still an exception in this business.
She attended Dunraven School, a comprehensive school run by Inner London Education Authority in Streatham. Campbell s second private appearance came at age 7 in September 1977 when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video for Bob Marley s song Is This Love? . So far, Campbell has created seven fragrances for women, most of which were released in Europe.
