Or, The Naomi Campbell Post:
The Special Court for Sierra Leone is still deep in calling the Defense witnesses in former Liberian warlord/president Charles Taylor's war crimes trial, but the Prosecution has recently stolen the show by subpoenaing an unlikely witness. Supermodel par excellence Naomi Campbell has been ordered by international law to cooperate with and provide testimony for the Prosecution regarding allegations that Taylor gave her a 'huge' uncut blood diamond at Nelson Mandela's residence in South Africa (!) in 1997. It is a totally bizarre scenario with actress Mia Farrow also set to testify as a witness to the transaction. The relevance to the trial is seemingly tangential, but if Campbell's testimony affirms that Taylor gave her the rough diamond it would prove that Taylor's claims to have never possessed uncut diamonds were lies. Stay tuned, and reevaluate your opinion about paparazzi-punching Naomi Campbell as you will. I personally wish she had used her elite status as a mainstream supermodel to uplift and empower black women the world over rather than profiteer off African suffering, but indeed, the jury is still out.
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