Naomi Campbell accused of 'attacking snapper' with handbag

Herald online

3 Aug, 2009 10:52 PM8 mins to read

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

Daily Mail

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

split acrimoniously

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*

this

Working it

Remember that infamous

Elle Magazine

photo shoot with

Lindsay Lohan

where some

jewellery sprouted legs

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

here

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.

We'll have what he's having

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

online auction

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

voicemails

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

funky wedding entrance

, 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