Bethany Minelle
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Absolutely.
Well, this goes back to her charity Fashion for Relief, which she set up way back in 2005.
The aim of that was to unite the glitzy and glamorous fashion industry together to raise money to relieve global poverty.
So it's a great aim.
And they did actually make millions for charities.
However, in 2021, the Charity Commission got involved.
They started investigating and they discovered that only around 8.5% of the money raised had actually gone to charity.
And therein the problems started.
And as you say,
Naomi Campbell was one of three of the trustees that was given a ban.
Naomi was given a five-year ban.
However, she is disagreeing, as any story has two sides.
Naomi Campbell says it is not correct that she
misused the funds and various kind of accusations at the time and evidence that was pulled forward by the Charity Commission, including thousands of pounds spent on luxury personal expenses that included things like a five star hotel stay in Cannes.
Spa treatments while in that hotel, room service, money spent on sending staff out to purchase cigarettes and sort of around Β£6,600 spent on sort of miscellaneous expenses.
So the whole thing didn't look very good for Naomi.
And clearly the charity commission decided against her and put in that ban, which means that she won't be able to head up or found a charity or run a charity for five years anymore.
She is appealing that.
And that's what's been happening this week in a charity tribunal in central London.
Naomi Campbell has been there.