Video: Naomi Campbell punches TV camera after Blood Diamond accusation

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Naomi Campbell punched a TV camera after being accused of accepting a Blood Diamond as a present.

The 39-year-old diva was asked whether she received an uncut stone from former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. but didn't take kindly to the question.

In an interview with US television network ABC, Campbell told a reporter: "I didn't receive a diamond, I am not going to speak about that."

When the interviewer then claimed she had been given the diamond after having dinner with Taylor, she replied: "I had dinner with Nelson Mandela", before walking out and striking the camera.

Actress Mia Farrow had claimed that Campbell was given a huge diamond by Taylor in 1997 while she was a guest of Mr Mandela in South Africa.

Farrow said: "You don't forget when a girlfriend tells you she was given a huge diamond in the middle of the night."

Taylor is facing charges of crimes against humanity after thousands of people in Sierra Leone were killed or had limbs amputated between 1997 and 2001.

Prosecutors allege that Taylor, who is being held at The Hague, purchased weapons for his soldiers by using the so-called 'blood diamonds' as currency.

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