Naomi Campbell Sues Paper For Privacy Invasion
— -- Supermodel Naomi Campbell is suing the tabloid The Daily Mirror for invasion of privacy for printing a picture of her leaving a Narocitcs Anonymous meeting with a headline that read 'Naomi: I am Drug Addict.'
Far from the flash of fashion photographers, one of the world's most familiar faces can these days be found in a London courtroom. Supermodel Naomi Campbell is suing a British tabloid for, of all things, publishing her picture. But where that picture was taken and what it says about Campbell is at the center of this suit.
The model — known for her fiery temperament — is suing the the London Daily Mirror for invasion of privacy. A photographer from the paper photogtraphed Campbell last year as she left a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in London.
Campbell had been quietly, and anonymously, attending group meetings for a year. The whole point of her treatment is the anonymity, and the public exposure of her drug habit put her recovery at risk, she claims. Friends feared that the publicity would push Campbell over the edge.
But British public relations guru Max Clifford says that celebrities can't pick and choose when they get media attention.
"I do think that when a celebrity uses the media, manipulates the media, with the help of PR people, lawyers etc, for their benefit and the benefits of their careers, then they can't complain too much when the media uses them," Clifford said.
Campbell insists there is a line STAND UP: CAMPBELL INSISTS THERE IS A LINE ? THIS WEEK SHE TOLD A LONDON COURT HERE AT THE JUSTICE BUILDING SHE WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE MIRROR DETAILED HER TORMENTING BATTLE WITH ADDICTION.
UNDER INTENSE CROSS-EXAMINATION ? SHE WAS DEFIANT, THEN TEARY, AS the newspaper's LAWYERS ATTACKED. THEY ACCUSED HER OF DECEIVING THE PUBLIC, FORCING HER TO ADMIT SHE'D USED DRUGS FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN THE LATE NINETIES.
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THE newspaper LAWYERS ASKED: IT MUST SURELY HAVE AFFECTED YOUR BEHAVIOR?.YES, SAID CAMPBELL
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