Naomi Campbell, that British super model, was recently subpoenaed by the World Court in Hague currently in judicial process against former Liberian war lord/president. The ex super model had refused to testify....

Naomi Campbell, that British super model, was recently subpoenaed by the World Court in Hague currently in judicial process against former Liberian war lord/president. The ex super model had refused to testify, saying “I am afraid it would put me and my loved ones in danger because this is someone that I read up on the Internet that killed thousands of people supposedly and I don't want my family in any danger in any way”.

Does anyone reading this blame the super model for wanting to protect her family? Or for that matter showing fear about a man called Charles Taylor? I think it’s unfair for the prosecutor to have suggested that Ms Campbell was downplaying her friendship with the former war lord when she exhibited such fear. But of course the whole thing may be much more than that especially when one of the other two witnesses testified that Campbell was flirting with the dictator. Never thrust a supermodel?

During the proceeding, Ms Campbell who met the then Liberian president in1997at a charity dinner hosted by the then South African President Nelson Mandela told the court: “When I was sleeping, I had a knock at my door. And I opened my door, and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, ‘A gift for you’. I saw a few stones in there, and they were very small, dirty-looking stones”.

But the two witnesses – Ms Carole White, 60 and Actress Mia Farrow, 65 – who were there thirteen years ago disputed Campbell’s claim saying, the former model knew that she would receive a diamond gift from Mr. Taylor and that she was quite excited about it . While the actress said that it was Naomi Campbell herself who confined in her that Charles Taylor wanted to give her diamonds, White, Campbell’s former agent, declared that she was actually present when the diamonds were being delivered to Campbell. Never thrust an agent? Or even an actress? What exactly happened on that day in the Rainbow City? Perhaps only heaven knows...

In my opinion, the defence did a thorough job during cross-examination, and actually called White a liar saying she has motive for lying against Campbell

It could be recalled that White and Campbell are in another court case for breach of contract in which White is in the position to get millions of dollars if she wins. Suffice to say that the accounts of the three women differ. Oh gosh, it was thirteen years ago! And whose account the judges going to believe? I am waiting – anxiously.

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