MANHATTAN — The last thing a country struggling in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake needs is a short-tempered supermodel running around with a cell phone. Unless, of course, she uses her phone for good instead of evil.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell is heading to Haiti next month as part of a planned humanitarian mission less a week after allegedly striking her limo driver with a cell phone in Manhattan, the Daily News reported.
"I am not a humanitarian leader, but someone who wishes to improve the world in which we live," Campbell told the Brazilian newspaper O Dia.
Haiti was devastated by a massive 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 that killed well over 200,000 people, injured thousands and left the country's infrastructure in shambles.
Campbell has already raised $1.5 million for women and children in Haiti with her own humanitarian group called Fashion for Relief.
The fashion diva's already bad reputation took another hit when it was alleged that she struck limo driver Miodrag Mejdina with her cell phone while on her way to a TV shoot in Queens for the ABC series "Ugly Betty" last week, according to several published reports.
Campbell allegedly fled the limo and was briefly wanted by police. A report was filed by the NYPD, but Mejdian later refused to press charges, police said. Mejdian, who works for the supermodel's boyfriend, publicly apologized to Campbell a short time later.
The alleged incident wasn't the first on the model's record. She was convicted of assaulting two officers at Heathrow Airport in London in 2000 and was arrested for hitting her Manhattan housekeeper with a cell phone in 2006.
Campbell is traveling to Haiti with the philanthropic group White Ribbon. The group was founded by Sarah Brown, who's the wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
