By Quentin Langley
Twitter and other social media are, of course, alive with conversations about Naomi Campbell, and the supermodel is hardly emerging with any distinction. Most of the comments are mocking or hostile, and often on a puerile level. Most assume she is a villain, though it is far from clear from her testimony that she is anything of the sort. Most assume she has done a great deal of damage to her reputation, and in this they are surely right.
Whatever Ms Campbell did or did not know about the ‘dirty stones’ given to her in the middle of the night while she was a guest of Nelson Mandela’s, it seems unlikely she will ever again be the guest of any revered head of state. And she did this to herself with a single remark, that giving evidence to a war crimes tribunal was “an inconvenience” to her.
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