Naomi Campbell Snaps at ABC news Over Blood Diamond Scandal

Naomi Campbell is refusing to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor about a huge, uncut "blood diamond" he allegedly gave her in 1997 in South Africa, ABC News will report tonight on "Nightline."

The excitable supermodel and the genocidal warlord were overnight guests of Nelson Mandela, correspondent Brian Ross reports, as was Mia Farrow, who has campaigned to bring attention to Taylor's diamond-fueled campaign of terror over the Liberian border in Sierra Leone.

Farrow tells Ross she learned of the diamond at breakfast: "Naomi Campbell came down . . . she said during the night some men had knocked on her door and she, half-asleep, had opened the door and it was representatives of President Charles Taylor and that they had given her a huge diamond. And we were like, 'Oh, my gosh.' "

Ross narrates: "Prosecutors say Taylor was in South Africa . . . to buy weapons for the Sierra Leone rebels with blood diamonds and that Mia Farrow's information about Campbell helps tie him to the purchase."

But Campbell won't cooperate. At a recent Fashion Week appearance to raise money for Haiti, she's shown saying, "I didn't receive a diamond and I'm not going to speak about that." She then ends the interview by slamming the camera to the floor.


Source: www.nypost.com