Naomi Campbell is now serving her second stint at community service after a rageaholic abusive incident. In March, 2007 she served a week on a sanitation crew in New York city for an incident in which she battered a maid’s face with a blackberry after claiming the woman stole a pair of jeans that was misplaced. Now she’s been sentenced to 200 hours community service at a London charity after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers at Heathrow airport in April.
This is London reports that her service will be difficult and that she won’t be given special consideration or an easier time because of her celebrity status:
Naomi Campbell is finding out that her community service order for assaulting two police officers will be far tougher than she ever expected.
The 38-year-old model started 200 hours of work at London’s Whitechapel Mission today.
And the Mission has been quick to scotch early reports she has received preferential treatment and a cosy job filing paperwork at the drop-in centre.
‘The Whitechapel Mission has been dealing with probationers for 130 years and throughout that time every single one of them has been treated exactly the same,’ said an employee who did not wish to be named.
‘She will be working with some of the most needy people in the capital. So she is not going to be given an easy ride or treated as a special case.
‘She will not be allowed to parade the streets in an orange vest to please photographers like she did in America.
‘The centre deals with around 30 probationers a month and is regularly checked on by the probation service, magistrates and even judges. She will not be given an easy time.’
Known on the street as the Cavell Street Mission, the Whitechapel centre stands opposite the Blind Beggar public house, notorious for its connection to 60’s gangsters the Kray twins.
On an average day it deals with more than 150 homeless people who come in search of a cooked breakfast, a shower and some medical facilities after a night sleeping rough.
[From This is London]
I’m glad that they’re saying Campbell won’t be allowed to parade around in couture clothing for photographers like on her last community service stint. Her high-fashion entry into street sweeping last year was chronicled in W Magazine, which featured her sanitation diaries in a cover story.
How Paris Hilton ended up in jail for over a month on charges of driving with a suspended license but Campbell, with several high-profile abuse incidents, has only received two community service sentences is beyond me. Sure it’s “hard” to work at a charity mission, but it’s a lot easier than doing jail time, and many people have 40 hour a week jobs doing much more demanding work. The woman needs more punishment for her behavior. It’s not likely to change her sense of entitlement, but at least she won’t be able to any more damage if she’s behind bars. We’ll have to wait until she blows up again before more justice is meted out.
Here’s Campbell at a photocall for Fashion for Relief on 9/8/08. Credit: Daniel Deme / WENN
Whitechapel’s area is one of the worst to work in, to be honest. I lived not far from it and had to pass Whitechapel’s streets every day on my way to uni. It’s a lot of homeless and unemployed you see outdoors and that kind of makes you thankful for what you’ve got.
I hope it will leave an impact on her to work with needy people.
Oh, btw, Jack the Ripper was active in Whitechapel 🙂
Yeah, it is a tough area. Good. The tougher the better. Although I’d have preferred her to have had a really shitty 6 months at HM’s pleasure – ideally Holloway.
Good ❗ You reap what you sow 👿
Perhaps her sentence should be some Old Testament justice – an eye for an eye sort of stuff. For one week, everybody gets to throw phones at Naomi’s face, and beat her up using bags, umbrellas… and maybe hammers.
@Kaiser: How about taking her cell phone away from her for 1-year. Can you think of a worse punshiment. 🙁
I’m sure she’ll do what she’s forced to do and then promptly go back to her self-important existence without a second thought. She seems far too ignorant to reap any real benefits from this experience, I’m sorry to say.
Hammers. LOL! Kaiser, that’s exactly what I thought – let her be on the receiving end of a batshit crazy tirade from some 6-foot psycho wearing an ugly wig. Something so bad it would make her cringe with fear. That’s what I wanna see – if another of such exists. Oh, and add a fully juiced cattle prod.