Campbell Begins Community Service in NYC
Posted on: Monday, 19 March 2007, 09:00 CDT
NEW YORK - Naomi Campbell is known for her fashion poses on the catwalk, not her cleaning skills. But for five days, beginning Monday morning, the 36-year-old supermodel was expected to push a broom or mop at a Manhattan garage to fulfill her sentence for community service for throwing a cell phone at her maid over a pair of missing jeans.
Unlike singer Boy George, who served a similar community service sentence in full view of TV cameras, the sentencing judge allowed Campbell to be assigned to work indoors. She was to begin work at Manhattan District 3 Garage, Pier 36.
The judge also granted Campbell's request to delay her service until after several fashion shows.
Campbell, who has a reputation for angry outbursts, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in January for hitting Ana Scolavino in the back of the head with the phone last March. Scolavino was treated for a head injury.
In exchange for her guilty plea, Campbell was ordered to pay Scolavino's medical expenses of $363, do five days of community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.
While community service has been employed in U.S. courts for decades, the punishment has gained a higher profile after the celebrity sentences.
TV cameras were on the scene when former Culture Club frontman Boy George found himself using a broom and wearing a reflective orange vest as he swept a driveway at a Sanitation Department depot in August for his five-day community service stint.
The 45-year-old singer, born George O'Dowd, was ordered to work for the department after pleading guilty last March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The responding officers found cocaine instead.
While he didn't respond to requests for comment at the time, he told the makers of a British documentary: "I've enjoyed it in a bizarre, perverse Boy George kind of way."
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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