Despite her reluctance to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor, super-supermodel Naomi Campbell grabbed some designer duds, a wig and flew to the Netherlands to offer her testimony regarding the diamond the dictator gave while at Nelson Mandela's home.
She was on the stand for two hours.
"I didn't really want to be here," she told the court. "I just want to get this over with and get on with my life. This is a big inconvenience for me."
But then she got on with it. She told the court she was awakened in the middle of the night after the September 1997 dinner party by two black men at her door. She said they offered her a pouch they said was a gift for her, with no further explanation.
She said she frequently receives gifts from admirers and didn't look at it until the following morning.
"I saw a few stones in there. And they were small, dirty-looking stones," she said.
She said that at breakfast the following day, either Mia Farrow or her former agent, Carole White, had told her the rocks must be diamonds and were probably a gift from Taylor.
Campbell said she gave the stones to a friend, Jeremy Ratcliffe, who was the director of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, intending he use them for charity. She said she had called Jeremy a year ago to ask what he had done with the stones, and he told her he still had them.
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