Fiery supermodel
Naomi Campbell
, whose tantrum-tainted reputation precedes her, has been accused of assault - again.
An Italian paparazzo is claiming that the model smacked him around the chops with her handbag, leaving him hospitalised, during a holiday in Italy with her billionaire boyfriend,
Mikhail Prokhorov
.
Gaetano Di Giovanni
spilled to Italian newspaper
La Repubblica
and claims his face was scratched and bruised after Campbell, 38, allegedly slapped him and walloped him with her handbag.
The supermodel's 'nails had damaged his left eye', the report said
.
"I had just started to photograph her. First she hit me with her bag, screaming at me in English," snapper Di Giovanni said.
"Then she tried to slap me but 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 her bodyguards and her boyfriend trying to drag her away."
The Brit model had just sailed to the island of Lipari, off the coast of Sicily, on her man's yacht after spending a few days with him in the South of France when the alleged incident occurred.
Just 'no'
Campbell's representative has denied to Britain's
that the attack took place, and says Police on Lipari have received no official complaint.
"Media reports circulating that Naomi Campbell attacked a photographer in Lipari, Sicily are completely untrue.
"The photographer was seen following Naomi Campbell on a small boat, taking photographs, the day after the alleged incident." her rep said.
Case history
The model was sentenced to 200 hours of community service in June 2008 after pleading guilty to assaulting police officers at Heathrow Airport following a row over missing luggage.
And a year earlier she served a five day community service sentence after admitting reckless assault when she threw a jewel-encrusted mobile phone at her maid
Ana Scolavino
.
Reports at the time claimed Campbell blamed her tantys on "lingering resentment toward her father for abandoning her as a child".
Whatevs. She's since said she has seen the error of her ways and cleaned up her act.
"There comes a point when it all catches up with you and you have to deal with it. And that caused me to reassess myself and get real treatment for my anger and my addictions," she told
Giant
magazine earlier this year.
Have a bag
We couldn't help but chuckle at the irony of this alleged 'handbag attack'. For only last month the superwaif was hailed for her philanthropic ways, after she
donated one of her treasured Birkin handbags to charity
...OK, so it's one of those tenuous "you had to be there" gags. Just ignore us.
The beef
So what's the beef with this latest assault allegation? It's simple: Either Campbell's cached her memory and tossed aside all that she learned in anger management, or someone's out to get her and make some mullah off her fiery reputation.
We know what our money's on...
Oh father
Ryan O'Neil
has confessed that he inadvertently tried to chat up his own daughter at the funeral of lover
Farrah Fawcett
.
That's just all shades of wrong.
In an interview with
Vanity Fair
, O'Neil imparted with the tale about the late
Charlie's Angels
star's memorial.
"I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me," he recalled.
"I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?'
"She replied, 'Daddy, it's me -
Tatum
!'
"I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter.
"It's so sick."
His daughter,
Tatum O'Neil
then gave her own take on the incident: "That's our relationship in a nutshell. You make of it what you will.
"It had been a few years since we'd seen each other, and he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant."
It's back on
As in
Paris Hilton
and her former squeeze
Doug Reinhardt
.
A snitch says the twosome, who
in June after four months of hot lovin', are back in each other's arms.
"They are definitely happy again," the snitch tells
Us Weekly
.
Reinhardt appeared to echo the idea that he may have hooked up with Parasite yet again after he wrote on his Twitter page: "What an amazing weekend with my beautiful girlfriend," he wrote. "I love her so much!"
Hilton's rep declined to comment.
You know what this means don't you...more public displays of affection like *warning: image might bring up your breakfast*
Working it
Remember that infamous
Elle Magazine
photo shoot with
Lindsay Lohan
where some
and did a vanishing number?
Here's the behind-the-scenes video.
Nary a sign of a hairy palm. Whodunnit?
Below the Barr
Mouthy comedienne
Roseanne Barr
has appeared in a series of controversial snaps for a magazine, posing as Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler
.
The Jewish star appears as a domesticated Hitler for US humour magazine
Heeb
, wearing the dictator's iconic moustache and holding a tray of what the article refers to as “burnt Jew cookies.”
Barr says she posed for the snaps because, "There is so much anti-Semitism in this world, it's not even funny. It is as everyday as baking cookies."
"Ignorance is not bliss. Recalling the horrors of the holocaust will not deflect or divert it as many Jewish people think," she added.
The publicity-hungry snaps have outraged some Jewish groups across America, but the magazine's publisher
Josh Neuman
insists the aim was not to cause offence.
"We did this with satiric intentions and not for shock value," he said.
Aha, of course you did. Keep telling yourself that.
See one of the snaps
Sneak peek: Pete Andre's brand new video - Behind Closed Doors
See what the Aussie boyo can do when he's not slugging it out in the tabs with soon-to-be ex-wifey
Jordan
.
Heaps beached
Legendary party animal and 'ladies' man'
Jack Nicholson
lets it all hang during a French Riviera holiday. He still manages to look cool bustin' some creaky moves on the dance floor, aged 72.
Booty call
Snippets of faxes and voicemails
Madonna
left for her former lover and security guard
Jim Albright
in 1993 have been unearthed.
Said items are up for sale in an
ending this week.
Madge left the series of messages for her former flame while in Puerto Rico with her
Girlie Show
tour.
Here's a snippet from one of the
:
12:48 p.m.: (In a sweet, girlish voice) Hello? Is anybody there? Hello? Are you still sleeping? Hello? Baby?
Umm . . . I got your letter. It was really sweet. I guess I should call you back?
Umm . . . I'm going to go running in 20 minutes. Uh . . . I'll call you back. Maybe you're still sleeping and the phone will wake you up. Or else, where would you be? Football game? Playing basketball? Hmmmm? I'll call you back.
2:33 p.m.: Hi, baby. It's me again. OK. Well, I'll just try calling you later, or you can call me. Leave me a message. OK? Bye.
2:35 p.m.: (In an aggrieved tone) Honey, what are you doing? I know you're there because your phone was just busy. And your phone is clicking and doing all these weird things. Now what's wrong? Why aren't you answering the phone?
What are you doing? What are you pissed about? What's going on? Stop being a baby and pick up the telephone.
9:43 p.m. (Adopting a tough, streetwise accent) You know you got a lot of nerve saying I was weak in
Shanghai Surprise. At least, you know . . . I took a chance. You gotta start somewhere. Which is more than I can say for some other people I know. You know what I'm saying? Man, you know what I'm saying, man? Eh?
Now there's a textbook example of how to come across as a complete bunny-boiler.
And to this day she can't fathom why the guy never picked up the phone. Poor Madge.
D.I.V.O.R.C.E
First came the YouTube sensation that was the
, now comes the inevitable divorce march:
Rogen's rejection
Choice clip of actor
Seth Rogen
squirming with embarrassment on
Jimmy Kimmel Live
last week while plugging new flick
Funny People
.
Rogen recalled being given the cold shoulder by 'aesthetically pleasing'
Megan Fox
while on the show in 2007. Cue ritual humiliation.
Clip
No Sex
Mrs Tom Cruise
has rubbished reports that's she's about to star in the upcoming
Sex and the City
movie sequel.
Katie Holmes
was rumoured to have auditioned for the part of a feisty businesswoman in the new flick.
Britian's
The Sun
tabloid said: "The character they want her to play is a really ballsy, high-powered company executive who tangles with Samantha."
But Holmes' rep says "no" and that there's "no truth" to the rumour. Good. Tiny Tom's
would only have put the mockers on things.
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