Top model Naomi Campbell was
convicted Friday of scratching an eye of a paparazzo
photographer in 2009 and sentenced to a six months suspended
prison term.
The verdict at the court in the Sicilian town of Barcellona
Pozzo di Gotto related to an incident Aug. 5, 2009, when the
model together with her then boyfriend, Russian billionaire
Vladimir Doronin, left a yacht moored off the Sicilian island of
Lipari to visit the local port town and a photographer, Gaetano
Di Giovanni, took several photos of her as she strolled through
the narrow streets.
Campbell laid into the photographer with her handbag and
scratched one of his eyes, meaning he required medical treatment
and three days to recover, the court heard.
The model's lawyers subsequently reached an agreement with
the photographer so that he withdrew charges he had pressed
against Campbell but prosecutor Francesco Massara ordered the
trial to go ahead anyway in the public interest because of the
gravity of the wounding charges against her, judicial sources
said.
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