Naomi Campbell Allegedly Assaults Her Driver and Flees Scene

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts)
Posted Mar 2nd 2010 at 9:51PM

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Naomi Campbell allegedly attacked her driver and fled the scene. Photo: Tim Whitby, WireImage

From the sounds of it, Naomi Campbell may still need lessons in keeping her hands -- and her aggression -- to herself.

The NYPD is searching for Campbell, who is accused of hitting the male driver who was hired for the day to drive the supermodel from Manhattan to Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, according to The New York Times.

The two were driving through midtown Manhattan today -- at the intersection of 58th Street and Second Avenue -- when Campbell allegedly hit the driver. After he pulled the car over, Campbell reportedly fled the scene and cops are still looking for her.

The NYPD told The Times that the driver approached a male traffic agent who called the police. The driver was then taken to a local station for questioning and to treat a small bruise underneath his eye, which he says he got when he smacked into the steering wheel after he was hit.

"There shouldn't be a rush to judgment," a spokesman for Campbell told the paper. "Naomi will cooperate voluntarily, and there is more to the story than meets the eye."

This isn't the first time that Campbell, 39, has been accused of assaulting those hired to serve her various needs.

Over the last three years, the supermodel -- who recently made headlines for hosting two Fashion For Relief Haiti benefit runway shows -- plead guilty to two assault charges.

In 2007, the Times reports she plead guilty in a New York court to hitting her housekeeper in the head with her cell phone in 2006. Campbell served five days of community service and took anger management classes as punishment.

Then, in 2008, the Times says she was sentenced to 200 hours of community service -- which she turned into a fashion show, one day showing up in a sequined Dolce & Gabbana gown, among other designer garb -- and was asked to pay a $4,500 fine after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers at Heathrow Airport in the U.K. after one of her bags was lost.

According to the Huffinton Post, in 2000 Campbell also plead guilty in Toronto for beating her assistant with a phone and there was also another maid who accused Campbell of similar abuse in 2006 and they settled the issue in 2009.

The U.K. Register reports that another assistant came forward with tales of being hit with a BlackBerry in 2005.

No word on whether a mobile device was allegedly involved in the most recent incident.

Stay tuned...

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Tags: Assaults, attacks, cell phones, Drivers, fashion for relief, Legal trouble, naomi campbell, NYPD, supermodels

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Destiny4, 3-03-2010, 2:59PM

quit it!

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Charles, 3-03-2010, 3:03PM

Google Jail Naomi Campbell

Rick, 3-03-2010, 6:08PM

sHE WILL never quit it! this is some sort of derranged form of an adreneline rush for her. i once had an encounter with her in westwood many years ago when i was the photographer shooting stills for a red carpet event, prior to the event there was an interview and my job was shooting the stills and setting up the lighting and blocking off an area as designated by our permit and the owners of the property. she went balistic and insisted on parking right were all the lighting equiptment was (a yellow zone and permitted to our shoot!) we offered to valet her but she was picking up her kid or friend and she attacked me thowing blow after blow while i shielded my equiptment and covered my face. she finally left, i couldn't retailate nor even complain as the show must go on. i was bruized for two weeks. i've heard stories that when she is a featured attraction she always finds someone to harass or fight and most are like me, we are working and can't leave the job or quit on the spot or even complain and she knows it. She is no different than the actor that went balistic over the camera man that cut across a stage setting up equiptment that was yelled at even thou camera men are required to move around the sets to fix problems with lighting, cameras, electrical etc. these millionaire coke addics get away with it and enjoy lashing out at subordinates for the mere sport. I've seen her at gala events and make sure that she is no where near me or in my shots. we put too much stock in our celbs, most are miserable, uneducated drug addics and unhappily spiritually deficient WHERE HAS ALL THE GLAMOUR GONE?

MAGOOS, 3-03-2010, 2:27PM

This whacko has been needs serious help while she is in jail. Put her there and remove her from the place she craves to be - the center of attention!

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rikkyloo, 3-03-2010, 2:29PM

Well said! Enough attention to this old has-been.

Rosalie Brown, 3-03-2010, 3:01PM

Why does people keep allowing Naomi to hit them and they don't hit back. All it would take is just one time for someone to strike back at her hard enough and Naomi would think twice before she raised her hand again.

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shea, 3-03-2010, 5:03PM

THANK YOU LADY

Lydia, 3-03-2010, 6:09PM

THAT'S what I always say!!! Why do they just sit back and let themselves get hit? I would have walloped her, but GOOD, and I will just BET that she would NEVER have hit someone again! She's a damned bully. I can just BET she was one in school.

Lori, 3-03-2010, 2:33PM

For every choice, there is a consequence. Naomi Campbell chooses to act out violently when things don't go her way. One of these days, Naomi is going to assault the wrong person and end up in the hospital looking at the end of her modeling career from a wheelchair.

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Gail, 3-03-2010, 2:37PM

I wish someone would send this bitch to jail, instead of imposing fines that mean nothing to someone who has millions.

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Long Island, NY, 3-03-2010, 2:46PM

I couldn't agree more. She is 39 years old & still assaulting people without consequence. She needs to be kept away from the public & in therapy. She is a very angry girl, a time bomb waiting to explode. All the signs are there. Are they waiting for a tradgedy?

GBROB, 3-03-2010, 4:04PM

I SEE A JAIL CELL IN HER FUTURE. SHE SHOULD BE WAY MORE CAREFUL ABOUT WHO SHE ATTACKS AND HOPEFULLY SHE WILL NOT BUY HER WAY OUT OF IT. IF IT HAD BEEN ME THAT SHE HIT, HER SKINNY A** WOULD BE IN A JAIL CELL FOR AT THE VERY LEAST A 10 YEAR SENTENCE. THIS SO CALLED SUPERMODEL NEED A REALITY CHECK - AND JAIL WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE FOR HER TO FIND IT!!!!!!!

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Amanda Addams, 3-03-2010, 6:17PM

GBROB, Don't you know RICH people do not go to jail? She only hits underlings,she never touches her peers.

Eric Johnson, 3-03-2010, 2:50PM

The girl is a bit spoiled , no reason to break out in hate . I would be happy to serve her in any way she craved, and would risk a smack now and then for the pleasure

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tjm, 3-03-2010, 3:04PM

if it were someone with no maney or fame you would have been in jail by now. so when is this Bi>>H going to jail? she's never going to learn until they give her a REAL jail sentence and some stupid alternative she always manages to get out of anyway. and not thisstupid 94min. thing these stars are getting these days, but some REAL time to make her learn her lesson. she's not worried right now because she's gotten awy with it so much in the past. and then her rep is already preparing the liea she's going to use as excuses. what, eveyone of the people she has assaulted over the years deserved it and she was innocent? SEND HER TO JAIL!!!!!

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glenn, 3-03-2010, 2:53PM

It's time for her to retire to another country . Any corporation that continues to use her to sell their products is a company with no morals or sense of ethics... She should be dumped like a hot potato......And any company that continues to use her shoud be boycotted.

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Gia, 3-03-2010, 2:55PM

Typical of her..throwing temper tantrums.

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Jim, 3-03-2010, 4:48PM

If she hit me I'd put her over my knee and give her a good old-fashioned spanking. Then again, maybe she likes that and is hoping somebody would.

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Bitch, 3-03-2010, 2:58PM

if that was me she was hitting i would either put her in the hospital and she will never work again or she would be dead and never see the light of day again.

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