英语名人堂：娜奥米·坎贝尔
2010年8月在荷兰海牙的联合国塞拉利昂特别法庭出庭作证，在法庭上承认于1997年在南非接受过利比里亚前总统泰勒赠送的钻石。
Naomi Campbell was one of the most beautiful supermodels of the 1990s. Born in 1970, she hails from London, England. Her mother was a Jamaican dancer. Her father left when she was just two months old. She gets her exotic looks from her Jamaican-Chinese grandmother. Naomi said: "My features are completely ethnic, and I'm proud of them.”
Success came early for the young Naomi. Her first job was at the age of seven in a Bob Marley video. At 15, a modelling agency spotted her shopping in London and within a year she was on the front cover of ‘Elle’ magazine. The rest is history. She has appeared on the cover of fashion magazines over 500 times.
Campbell has led the life of a celebrity. She was the first black cover girl for ‘Vogue’ magazine and appeared nude for Playboy. She has been linked romantically to Mike Tyson and Robert de Niro. She released a music album which sold over a million copies and was number one in Japan. Her ambitions have also resulted in her own fashion and perfume brands.
Since 1997, Campbell has been involved in charity work. She says one of her greatest joys was working with Nelson Mandela, helping children in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, she helped create the event Fashion Relief, which raised millions for Hurricane Katrina victims. Campbell also has a less enviable side to her character. She has a history of arrests for physically and verbally abusing others.
