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Ex-Liberian President Promised Naomi Campbell a Gift of Diamonds, the Model's Former Agent Says

Naomi Campbell's former business agent told a war crimes court Monday that the fashion model flirted with former Liberian President Charles Taylor at a 1997 dinner and he arranged to send her a gift of uncut diamonds.

The testimony from Campbell's former agent, Carole White, contradicts the British model's statements at the Sierra Leone Special Tribunal, in which she said she received a pouch of "dirty-looking diamonds" from unknown men.

The prosecution called Farrow and White to testify about a gift of uncut diamonds that Taylor allegedly gave the model after a September 1997 party they all attended hosted by then-South African President Nelson Mandela....

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