White to prosecutors, and that as an activist involved in issues relating to Africa, such as Darfur, she had a motive of working against African leaders she perceived to be oppressing their people.ĭefense counsel for Mr. Campbell but also contradicts the statements made by Ms. Farrow had difficulty recollecting different things, that her testimony did not only contradict that of Ms. Under cross-examination, defense lawyers tried to establish that Ms. Farrow said, “Absolutely not…Naomi Campbell said that diamonds were from Charles Taylor.” Campbell that the diamonds must have been from Mr. When asked a direct question as to whether she was the one who had told Ms. Farrow said she was never shown the diamond. “As I recall it, she was quite excited,” she added. “She said at night, some men had knocked at her door and there were two men that were sent by Charles Taylor, and they had given her a huge diamond and that she was going to donate it to Mr. Campbell went on to say she was going to donate the diamond to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Charity Fund. Taylor had sent her “a huge diamond” while she was asleep the previous night. Campbell approached her with excitement and told her that Mr. Farrow, who explained that the morning after they had all attended the star-studded dinner that was hosted by Nelson Mandela, she was at breakfast when Ms. Campbell’s account of the incident was not correct.įirst to testify was Ms. Taylor, an assumption that she also came to make, she said. White about the incident at breakfast, one of the two ladies suggested that the diamonds must have come from Mr. Campbell herself testified about the incident that happened in South Africa, telling the judges in The Hague that two men had knocked on her door in the middle of the night, gave her a pouch, and said, “a gift for you.” When she opened the pouch the following morning, she discovered that it contained “dirty-looking stones,” which she later gave to Jeremy Ratcliffe, the head on the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Taylor’s 19th witness, Issa Hassan Sesay. This week also saw the conclusion of the direct examination and the commencement of the cross-examination of Mr. The much anticipated testimonies of three celebrity witnesses were concluded this week with Hollywood actress Mia Farrow and modeling agent Carole White both contradicting the evidence of supermodel Naomi Campbell about allegations that Charles Taylor gave the supermodel rough diamonds in South Africa in 1997.
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