Prosecution Asks To Subpoena Naomi Campbell In War Crimes Trial Because of New Evidence of 'Blood Di

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

Prosecutors at an international war crimes trial have asked the judges to subpoena supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify about whether she received a 'blood diamond' from an African warlord.

The request comes after the attorney for Campbell's former modeling agent saw an ABC News report on allegations that Campbell had received a 'blood diamond' from former Liberian president Charles Taylor. The modeling agent, Carole White, has now given a statement to prosecutors saying that she witnessed several men giving Campbell a "half dozen" uncut diamonds.

Campbell has previously declined to testify in the case, which is being tried at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Netherlands. Prosecutors have asked the judges to subpoena Campbell, and to call Carole White and actress Mia Farrow as witnesses.

In her statement, White, who was Campbell's modeling agent from 1992 to 2007, claims that she saw men working for Taylor giving Campbell the uncut stones after a dinner at Nelson Mandela's house in South Africa in 1997. Taylor is on trial for allegedly fomenting a bloody rebellion in neighboring Sierra Leone, and using uncut diamonds to pay for weapons that he allegedly provided to the rebels.

When ABC News asked Campbell earlier this year if she had received a blood diamond from Taylor, she slapped an ABC News producer's camera aside and denied ever receiving a diamond. She has since refused to answer questions about the alleged receipt of a gem, telling talk show host Oprah Winfrey during a May appearance on her show that talking about the alleged incident would put her family in danger.



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[Booster]

1. Oh, yeah. let's go after the super-model and leave the dumb-ass

Ex-Oaf in Office and his sneering sidekick alone. I'm no Campbell fan, but this just bites my butt.

[HillbillyBob]

2. I have to agree, she might be a witch

but I very much doubt she has done anything very wrong personally.
I would like to see the former admin and most of their underlings tried.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Yep. She may have been given a blood diamond, and has the good

sense to be embarrassed about it, but if she didn't BUY one, she did nothing to promote the blood diamond market and increase the demand for them.

Now Pat Robertson, OTOH, supported Taylor and his war and has had a vested interest in those diamond mines. I'd love to see the Charles Taylor trial spill onto his lap.

[aquart]

4. It wasn't A diamond. And this isn't about "promotion."

This is about what she did with "half-a-dozen" diamonds suspected of being used to pay for a bloody war.

Did Naomi Campbell agree to be a conduit to smuggle those diamonds to a place where they could be converted to pay for that war? WHY was she receiving uncut diamonds. She isn't a jeweler.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. C'mon. The story just doesn't make any sense.

And your interpretation of it even less so.

You think Taylor needed NAOMI CAMPBELL to be a conduit for blood diamonds? He'd been running them for years - had a tried and true and trusted network of shady dealers who knew who to go to in order to get the best return on them without them being traced back to him. So of COURSE he would give them to Campbell, who is followed by papparazzi 24/7 and who can't stay out of the papers if she tried.

And if she was to be used as a conduit, why would 'several' men give her a 'half-dozen' diamonds - all at once? That would mean each of the 'several' men gave her 1-2 diamonds - when blood diamonds go onto the illicit market by the bagfull.

I'd believe that Taylor himself gave her ONE diamond in an attempt to impress herz, but then, why would the others? Once Taylor gave her a huge rock, would the lesser stones his lieutenants had impress her?

Campbell has made a lot of enemies, most of them among the people closest to her. IMO, the modeling agent had a grudge and came up with this 2nd story just to make trouble for her. It's the only thing that makes sense.

[JI7]

5. i believe Mia Farrow