Naomi Campbell sought in assault on chauffeur
NEW YORK, March 2, 2010 (AFP) - Police said Tuesday 2 March they
wanted supermodel Naomi Campbell for questioning in
connection with an assault on her chauffeur as they drove through
New York.
Police said Campbell's driver reported being struck so hard that
his face slammed against the steering wheel of the moving Cadillac
Escalade, bruising him beneath the right eye.
"An
individual who said he was driving as the chauffeur for the
model Naomi Campbellreported to a traffic enforcement
officer... that she had assaulted him by hitting him in the back of
the neck, causing his head to hit the steering wheel," police
spokesman Paul Browne told AFP.
The
driver told police he was driving Campbell through east Manhattan
in the black Cadillac when she struck him.
He
then stopped the car and went to speak to a traffic officer at the
scene, who called the police, Browne said. The driver was treated
for a "minor injury under his eye."
"The
driver said Miss Campbell had fled the scene on foot," Browne said.
"We have to speak to her. We have not done so yet. We have not
located her. We need to."
A
spokesman for the British model said she should not be judged too
quickly as there was "more to the story than meets the eye," NBC
News reported.
Campbell already has a record of violent tantrums.
In
2008 she pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers in London's
Heathrow Airport. She also pleaded guilty to throwing her cell
phone at a maid in New York.