Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Blood diamonds are a girl's best friend

I teased a model for greed yesterday. Today's model story is similarly representative of a different world.

Naomi Campbell had dinner with Nelson Mandela and Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone's genocidal dictator. Taylor gave her a diamond, likely to have been mined by slaves or traded for weapons. Presumably he'd been impressed by her repeated convictions for her direct manner with the lower orders.

She doesn't like being asked about it:

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