Owch!

The trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who is being charged with 11 different and nasty offences including murder, sexual slavery and rape (all of which he denies) has hit the headlines more for it’s inclusion of Naomi Campbell as a witness rather than for the fact that it is a very important trial and has already been going on since 2007 with very little media fanfare.

Naomi turned up to court looking suitably stunning and for a short moment reminded me  just a little bit of a James Bond baddie. Preceded by her reputation as a diva, tantrum thrower extraordinaire and serial maid abuser, Naomi in the role of greedy diamond grabber is just too salacious not to write oodles of speculative paragraphs about. Now, after having given her evidence, a fact that she said was thought was a bit of an “inconvenience”, she has hopped off to Sardinia to frolic around on a yacht with her Russian boyfriend and Leonardo Di Caprio. Just to push the great boat of irony a little bit further, Di Caprio was himself in a film called Blood Diamond, a film about how the sale of diamonds funded the bloody conflict in Sierra Leone.

Whether you might think that Naomi is being used as a bit of a scapegoat here, or if you merely think she seems a bit of a spoilt old supermodel is up to you, however I couldn’t resist dragging out that old t-shirt she was spotted in saying “Naomi hit me” whilst on the back it continues “….and I loved it” proving that the old girl has a sense of humour after all. But will she next be seen in a t-shirt with the words “Where are those bloody diamonds?”  Somehow I doubt it.