Naomi Campbell, Supermodel, - Biography
Supermodel
Height 5 foot 9 and a half
Weight 113 Pounds
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Naomi Campbell
Born: May 22, 1970, Streatham, South London,
England
Naomi Campbell, born in England, United Kingdom on 22nd May 1970,
is an iconic supermodel & sometime actress, singer & author.
Campbell
was born in Streatham, South London. She attended Dunraven School, a comprehensive
school run by Inner London Education Authority in Streatham & attended the
London Academy For Performing Arts.
A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy
stage school, Campbell's first appearance to a wider public was in February 1978
when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video with Bob Marley for his
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".
On graduating
from Italia Conti, her looks created her an income & she switched to become
a fulltime model, creating a high profile career & creating two spin-off companies:
NC Connect & a self-named line of perfumes.
Her charity work mainly focuses
on the children & people of Africa, including working with Nelson Mandela,
since 1997. In 2005 she helped to create & participate in 'Fashion Relief'
for Hurricane Katrina victims, raising over a million dollars.
Aged 15 &
while still a student of the Italia Conti Stage School, Campbell was spotted by
Beth Boldt, former head of Synchro models agency, window-shopping in Covent Garden.
In April 1986, she appeared on the cover of Elle, when a black model had to cancel
out of the appearance, & was replaced by Campbell. By August 1988, she had
appeared on the cover of the French Vogue as that publication's first black cover
girl, & she completed campaigns for Ralph Lauren & François Nars.
Her
modelling career started as a catwalk model, but she was quickly picked up for
various high-profile advert-sing campaigns for Lee Jeans & Olympus Corporation,
which brought her to the American market. The highpoint of her career was in the
early 1990's, when she was part of the two major supermodelling powerhouses, the
Big Six & the Trinity, (with Linda Evangelista & Christy Turlington).
She
has walked the catwalk for many fashion designers, including Gianni Versace &
Valentino. Naomi did tumble over on the catwalk at Vivienne Westwood's Anglomania
fashion show in 1994. Naomi was the first black model to appear on the cover of
Time magazine & the French & British Vogue magazines. She was the first
black model on the cover of Vogue Nippon. She has also appeared on the covers
of Harper's Bazaar & ELLE magazine.
She posed nude for Playboy magazine,
& for a series of lesbian-erotic photos with Madonna in the latter's book
Sex.
Campbell has appeared in music videos for artists such as Michael Jackson,
Jay-Z, P.Diddy, Bob Marley, The Notorious B.I.G, Macy Gray, Prince, Usher &
Madonna's music video, "Erotica", with Ingrid Casares on 12 October
1992. She had previously appeared in George Michael's music video, "Freedom
'90", where she lip-synched to his song along with other models. She was
also to be seen in Frankie J's music video, "That Girl".
Campbell
has tried her hand at singing. Her single "Love & Tears" was a hit
& her solo album Baby Woman sold over 1 million copies worldwide (but mostly
in Japan), & she was featured on Vanilla Ice's single "Cool as Ice."
In 1995, her collaboration with Toshinobu Kubota, "La La La Love Song"
the theme song to Long Vacation, became a no. 1 hit in Japan, with the single
selling approx. 1,856,000 copies. That same year she sang on Quincy Jones' album
"Q's Juke Joint".
Campbell "co-wrote" the best-selling
novel Swan in 1996, & she followed it up with a photography book entitled
Naomi. But when questioned about her use of a ghost writer for "Swan"
Campbell admitted that she wrote almost none of the book: "I just did not
have time to sit down & write a book"
· Naomi Campbell has
been on over 40 magazine covers.
· Naomi Campbell is 1/8 Chinese &
7/8 Afro-Jamaican
· She starred at age 7 in the music video for Bob
Marley & the Wailers song Is This Love.
· Is distantly related
to the comedian & television present Richard Blackwood.
· Endorses
Jay-Z's clothing line Rocawear.
Campbell has had relationships with many famous
personalities. She was quite sadly rumoured to have a brief relationship with
the convicted rapist and boxer Mike Tyson in the late 1980s, & was engaged
to U2's bassist Adam Clayton. In the 1990s Campbell went out with actor Robert
de Niro, dancer Joaquin Cortes & with Renault F1 team boss Flavio Briatore.
In late 2004 she had a high profile relationship with Usher, although by 2005
their relationship appeared to be over. In addition, she has been romantically
linked to musician Eric Clapton, actor Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert, Robert
Goode, Norman Sukkar, Matteo Marzotti, & the actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
In
February 2001 pictures were published in the Daily Mirror newspaper showing Campbell
leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in London. In March 2002 Campbell sued the
paper citing a breach of confidentiality, since she was receiving treatment for
drug addiction at the time. The Mirror claimed that the pictures were in the public
interest as Campbell had denied having a drug problem publicly & had, up to
that point, not been known or demonstrated to be a drug addict. The High Court
ruled in Campbell's favour & the Mirror was ordered to pay £3,500 in
damages (although legal costs were thought to be around £500,000.) In October
2002, the Mirror won an Appeal Court ruling that the photographs were indeed in
the public interest. Campbell was ordered to pay the costs of the Mirror's legal
fees, a cost of around £350,000. However, in May 2004 the Law Lords overturned
the Appeal Court ruling by a 3 to 2 majority, which reinstated the High Court's
original decision, & Campbell was rewarded £3,500 & the £350,000
legal costs. The Mirror's legal cost is thought to be over £1,000,000. The
case is also thought to be a landmark in the rights of celebrities to privacy.
Campbell
is purported to have had feuds with several celebrities, the most publicised of
which is with fellow model Tyra Banks. The two finally made up in 2005 on an episode
of Banks' syndicated talk show The Tyra Banks Show. At the end of the 2005 Victoria's
Secret Fashion Show Banks & other models left the runway, & Banks explained
her emotions of the event being her last runway show as a fashion model; &
as she was talking Campbell came to hug Banks & kiss her on the cheek.
Campbell
also had a rift with former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who publicly branded
the model as a "massive cow" & a "bitch" in 2000. They
have since been photographed holding hands at a fashion show so a detente appears
to have taken place.
Campbell has been accused & arrested because of committing
acts of physical violence & verbal abuse against some of her employees &
associates. Documented accusations include:
· In 2000, she pleaded guilty
in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant;
Campbell had assaulted Galanis with a telephone in a hotel room & threatened
to throw her out of a moving car. Under an agreement with the prosecution her
record was cleared in exchange for her expressing remorse; Campbell also paid
Galanis an undisclosed amount of money & agreed to attend anger management
lessons
· March 2005, the model was said to have slapped assistant Amanda
Brack & beaten her around the head with a BlackBerry hand-held personal organiser.
The star's spokesman Rob Shuter denied the incident ever took place. In July 2006,
Brack began legal proceedings against Campbell, claiming the supermodel abused
her verbally & physically on three continents. Brack accused Campbell of assault,
battery, false imprisonment & infliction of emotional distress in incidents
that started a month after she began working for her in February 2005
·
Italian actress Yvonne Scio has claimed the model left her "covered in blood"
after a spat at a Rome hotel. Yvonne claimed: "She punched me in the face.
She was like Mike Tyson." Interestingly enough, Campbell once dated Mike
Tyson.
· 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. She was charged with second degree
assault, a felony that carries a minimum sentence of one year & a maximum
of seven years in prison.
· On 28 September 2006, she did not attend
a required court appearance in New York City, & the judge ruled that he would
order her arrest if she failed to turn up on court the following week, on charges
of a second degree assault on her housekeeper, & could be jailed for up to
seven years if convicted.
· On 25 October 2006, she was arrested in
London on suspicion of assault. She has been released on police bail.
·
On 14 November 2006, another former Campbell housekeeper, Gaby Gibson, began a
new court case against the supermodel seeking unspecified damages, & 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. Her defence lawyer & the prosecutor told the
judge that they were "still in the process of working out a possible"
plea deal in the case.
· On 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty
to a charge of reckless assault against Ana Scolavino. She was sentenced to five
days community service & ordered to attend an anger management course. In
addition, she was ordered to pay medical bills of $363 (£185) to Mrs Scolavino
who needed four stitches after the incident.
· 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.
In 2007 Campbell was punished by the New York justice system
for throwing her mobile phone at her maid, by making her mop the New York's Sanitation
Department for 5 days, unpaid though.
Filmography
· Cool as Ice (1991)
· The Night We Never Met (1993)
· Ready to Wear (1994) (Cameo)
· Unzipped (1995) (documentary)
· Miami Rhapsody (1995)
· To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
·
Catwalk (1996) (documentary)
· Girl 6 (1996)
· Invasion
of Privacy (1996)
· Beautopia (1998) (documentary)
· An
Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
· Trippin' (1999)
·
Prisoner of Love (1999)
· Ali G Indahouse (2002)
· Fat Slags
(2004)
· The Call (2006) (short subject)
Karma, Confessions &
Holi (2006)
This site was written in March 2007
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