Model Naomi Campbell’s ferocious temper came back to haunt her yesterday when she was forced to pay damages for allegedly attacking a photographer.
She reached the undisclosed settlement with paparazzo Gaetano Di Giovanni – five years after he accused her of putting him in hospital.
The settlement was revealed as the 44-year-old went on trial for the alleged assault on Gaetano Di Giovanni, who she is accused of battering and scratching after he took pictures of her with her billionaire ex-boyfriend .
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Mr Di Giovanni claimed his face was scratched and bruised after Campbell allegedly slapped him and hit him with her handbag, damaging his left eye with her nails.
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‘First she hit with her bag, screaming at me and then she tried to slap me,’ he told Italian reporters at the time.
‘I managed to avoid her – but her nails still got my eye. For a few seconds, I could not see a thing. I could hear that her bodyguards and her boyfriend were trying to drag her away.’
He did not recover for three days, a claim that he said was backed up by doctors. An eyewitness said:
‘She flew at him screaming gibberish before being dragged away by her own bodyguards.’
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The model, known for her fiery temper, denies the allegations and has claimed she was besieged by paparazzi while on holiday in the picture-perfect Aeolian islands, off the coast of Sicily.
PHOTO: Naomi Campbell Bald
The incident took place on the Mediterranean paradise island of Lipari in July 2009 when Miss Campbell was on holiday with her ex boyfriend Vladimir Doronin, a Russian mogul.
