You probably already heard this, but at the International Court in Hague where she testified in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, Naomi Campbell confirmed receiving a gift of “dirty-looking stones” in 1997. These dirty-looking stones turned out to be precious diamonds, prosecutors believed to be Charles Taylor’s “blood diamonds, which fueled Sierra Leone’s bloody conflict, a conflicted that displaced and killed hundreds of thousand people.
Apparently, Naomi Campbell was handed a pouch containing diamonds by two unidentified men, presumably representing Charles Taylor, following a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela. If the prosecutors prove that the diamonds were indeed from Taylor, Ms Campbell’ s testimony deals a terrible blow to Taylor’s claim that he never dealt in diamond during the Sierra Leone war.