Ill-tempered temptress Naomi Campbell allegedly attacked a hired chauffeur today who was driving her around the city, then fled the car when he hailed a traffic enforcement agent, police sources said.
She is unlikely to face criminal charges, according to the NYPD.
Campbell, who has a history of anger-management issues, socked the driver in the back of the head so hard that his head hit the steering wheel, leaving him with a bruise under his left eye and swelling, the sources said.
Police issued a harassment report in consultation with the district attorney’s office because no officer witnessed what took place in the black Cadillac Escalade. The move came after the driver decided not to pursue the matter. The report doesn’t carry any penalty.
The driver, whose named wasn’t released, picked the model up at the Mandarin Hotel off Columbus Circle today and was driving her to a studio in Queens.
They were heading east on 58th Street when she brought up a year-old incident when the driver was ferrying Campbell’s boyfriend, Vlad Doronin, around, police sources said.
Campbell had called her boyfriend, who didn’t answer, and then called the driver, who also didn’t answer. She thought the driver was covering for her boyfriend.
Apparently angered by this, Campbell then hit him in the back of the head near the intersection of 58th Street and Second Avenue, according to the sources.
The driver got out and approached the traffic enforcement agent to tell him that he’d been assualted. When they returned to the car, the 39-year-old Campbell was gone.
Cops later interviewed the 27-year-old driver at the 17th Precinct station house, along with Campbell’s assistant, who had hired him for the day.
Police officials are talking to the Manhattan district attorney about how to proceed.
The former British-born supermodel has had some anger issues in the past.
In February 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant two years earlier.
In another famous case involving Campell, she was charged in March 2006 with throwing a cell phone at her maid Ana Scolavino in Manhattan.
Cantankerous catwalker eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for hitting Scolavino and was sentenced to serve two days of anger management classes and five days of community service cleaning up Sanitation offices.
In June 2008, Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service after she pleaded guilty to being abusive towards a British Airways crew at London’s Heathrow Airport.
With AP