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BunnyLebowski · 09/08/2010 13:27

Don't really see what motivation there would be for Mia to lie.

Naomi is a dumb clothes horse with a history of sleeping with men for money/gifts and a nasty side to her character.

Think my mind's made up.

Lulumaam · 09/08/2010 13:29

and poor Naomi has already been so inconvenienced by having to appear at the trial.

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Callisto · 09/08/2010 13:30

It would be quite satisfying to see NC slung into an African jail for lying in court.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 09/08/2010 13:35

Why the bloody hell is naomi C dressed up as one of the Supremes?

I don't know who to believe, but I think this is another nasty stain on NC's vile character.

isthatporridgeinyourhair · 09/08/2010 13:40

Mia - NC doesn't have a great deal of moral fibre does she?

hocuspontas · 09/08/2010 13:41

But MF has just apologised in the courtroom because her memory isn't perfect after 13 years (whose would be?) and she can't remember all the details. So I can't see that they are ever going to get the honest truth after all this time.

potplant · 09/08/2010 16:48

I haven't een following this that closely so I didn't realise it was that long ago - no wonder their stories differ.

You've got to wonder why anyone would be dropping off diamond/s in the middle of the night to Naomi Campbell.

sue52 · 09/08/2010 18:10

Mia seems a caring compassionate and honest woman, Naomi does not.

jodevizes · 09/08/2010 19:16

Mind you, the fact that she was happy that the guy was giving her diamonds then when it turned out that they were uncut and became muddy little stones. She has been watching to many heist films where the glittering stones tumble out of a velvet pouch.

The other strange thing is that she gave them to the guy from the charity who seems to have forgotten he had them.

A squalid little affair.

Nancy66 · 09/08/2010 21:14

NC wouldn't know the truth if it bit her on the arse. She's lied repeatedly throughout this affair - it's only when she was threatened with 7 years in prison that she remembered that some dodgy guy might have givn her some diamonds....

whomovedmychocolate · 09/08/2010 21:17

NC, for example, is morally incontinent and spins whatever story suits. I don't know what the penalty is for her alleged behaviour (or that of the defendant) but I hope it involves eating weevils. Angry

Doodleydoo · 09/08/2010 21:19

Well both aren't particularly normal women when it comes down to it, but quirky Mia gets my vote over the scary nc!

ISNT · 09/08/2010 21:24

The business about her saying she would give the diamond/s to charity as soon as she received them seemed very, erm, generous.

Then the charity said they never received them.

Now the bloke from the charity says he did received them and has handed them over Hmm where were they all this time?

If it's the same ones and he's handed them over then everyone will be able to see whether it's one big one or lots of little ones. By, yuo know, looking with their eyes. Unless one big one could get cut into lots of little ones?

it all seems very peculiar, and it was a long time ago. But both women have given evidence that diamonds changed hands, which is all the prosecution needs from them, I think?

TanteAC · 09/08/2010 21:27

Have had one eye on the court case all day on BBC news 24 - omg, Naomi is clearly lying!
Mia Farrow got quite a grilling, didn't she?
But my fav moment was when Carol White denied being at a 'blood diamond' party last week - only for the court to produce pcs and comments about it from Facebook!
Bloody facebook Shock - what age is she, 12?! Would be PMSL if it weren't such a hideous issue of corruption and human rights abuses!
Hmmm, turns ut I watched a bit too much, given my wild response here Blush

lalalonglegs · 09/08/2010 22:06

Apparently it is a serious crime to own uncut diamonds in South Africa (where the gifting happened) - presumably to avoid a Sierra Leone situation. So the poor guy who ran the charity was handed the equivalent of a blood-covered knife - I think he did the best he could and quietly disappeared the stones rather than risk embarrassing Nelson Mandela and, although it galls me to say it, Naomi Campbell who were both very involved with his charity.

edam · 09/08/2010 22:12

You don't get to break the law because it might embarrass your mates. Even if one of the mates is Nelson Mandela.

And the gall of Campbell, bitching about how the trial was seriously inconveniencing her! Don't care how many charity galas she adorns with her gracious presence, this is about a country where people were mutilated and killed, FGS.

lalalonglegs · 09/08/2010 22:27

Embarrass is the wrong word - I think it would have been a major scandal and completely tarnished a charity that was doing a lot of good. It would have also tarnished Nelson Mandela through absolutely no fault of his - I think, given the circumstances, the head of the charity did the right thing. He really was handed a smoking gun - I feel sorry for him. I have absolutely no argument with you over loathsome Naomi Campbell - the absolute gall of her is... I was going to say shocking but that sounds a bit feeble. She is monstrous. I am puzzled why Charles Taylor was at this banquet at all - I think even at the time, and without the benefit of hindsight, he was considered pretty dodgy.

edam · 09/08/2010 22:53

Yes, but sadly many African leaders are. The ANC has protected Mugabe's hide for many years, for instance. Hmm

lalalonglegs · 09/08/2010 22:59

True.

edam · 09/08/2010 23:17

depressing, isn't it? I mean you can't really argue with Mandela's achievements and life story. He has such huge ? and well-deserved ? moral capital. Wish I knew why he felt the need to protect mass murderers like Taylor and Mugabe. And Winnie, come to that.

diddl · 10/08/2010 08:46

It´s all odd, to say the least isn´t it?

13yrs, yes that´s a while, although I think most of us would remember being given diamonds even that long ago?

Maybe it´s just not an important enough an event to these people.

But all this knocking on doors late at night?
Weird!

edam · 10/08/2010 09:36

yeah, the idea that a woman in a hotel room is quite happy to open the door to strange men in the middle of the night, and does this regularly, is a little odd.

ISNT · 10/08/2010 10:22

I found that odd too edam. Maybe she would have been in a suite interconnected to entourage/bodyguards and people? Must be something like that.

giveitago · 10/08/2010 13:40

Mia - glad she's contracticted NC. Let NC now say something that conclusively puts this to rest.

No, the prosecution needs to connect Charles Taylor to the diamonds and NC is saying she didn't know who gave her the diamonds. She reckons she hadn't heard of CT or Liberia at all. That, I can well believe. But I do wonder whether she is in the habit of opening doors to strange men and taking gifts from them and not even looking in the bag until the next day. Erm.

Mingg · 10/08/2010 15:08

Neither

All supermodels get presents all the time so I don't think her accepting a gift and not looking in the bag is strange, not sure about the timing though