It’s about to get very ugly for beautiful Naomi Campbell.
The cantankerous catwalker, who insisted under oath last week that she did know who sent her “dirty-looking pebbles” that turned out to be infamous blood diamonds, was aware that alleged war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor was going to send her the gems, according to explosive court testimony expected today from her former agent.
And she later falsely boasted to pals that one was much larger than it actually was, the agent will say. The moody model was forced to the stand at Taylor’s trial at The Hague in the Netherlands last week as prosecutors tried to tie him to the diamonds.
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The former president allegedly received the uncut, illegally mined gems in exchange for arming murderous Sierra Leone rebels.
Campbell denied even talking about diamonds with Taylor at a dinner party 13 year ago — much less knowing that a pouch of “very small, dirty-looking” stones she later received from three mysterious men had been sent by him.
But Carole White — once her loyal, longtime agent — is set to testify that she “heard Mr. Taylor tell Ms. Campbell that he was going to send her diamonds” during the party,” The Times of London said.
Campbell, now 40, and Taylor, 62, were “mildly flirtatious” as they sat next to each other at the dinner honoring South African leader Nelson Mandela, White has told prosecutors.
“Taylor and his people were staying [at a hotel] some distance away [from Campbell], so it was arranged that he would send some men back with the gift,” White said.
“Ms. Campbell seemed excited about the diamonds, and she kept talking about them.”
But when the model actually received the goodies, “she was disappointed because she thought she was going to get a big, shiny diamond, and these just looked like pebbles,” White said.
There were “five to eight” of the uncut gems in all, she said.
Actress Mia Farrow also is set to testify in the case.
Farrow is expected to testify that at breakfast the morning after the party, Campbell told her and other amazed guests an “unforgettable story.
“She [said] she had been awakened in the night by knocking at her door,” Farrow said in her previous statement to prosecutors.
“She opened the door to find two or three men, I do not recall how many, who presented her with a large diamond, which they said was from Charles Taylor.”
Campbell has denied it all.
She testified that when she spoke with Taylor that night, “I spoke in general. I was interested in Liberia. I had never heard of it before.”
The pouch of diamonds later came with “no explanation, no note,” she said.
Receiving such an odd gift from a mysterious fan was not unusual, Campbell insisted, saying, “I get gifts all the time, sometimes in the middle of the night.”
The million-dollar model testified only after being threatened with up to seven years in prison for contempt of court if she didn’t.
Taylor is charged with crimes against humanity, including funding the rebels, who think nothing of recruiting child soldiers and mutilating civilians.