UK police escort model Naomi Campbell off plane
8:50AM
Friday April 04, 2008
British supermodel Naomi Campbell. Photo / Reuters
LONDON - Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been arrested at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 for allegedly spitting at a police officer, Sky News television reported on Thursday.
"Police were called to remove a passenger from a British Airways flight this afternoon," a spokesman for the British airport authority said.
Police said they had arrested a passenger on suspicion of assaulting an officer but declined to provide further details.
Airport sources identified the passenger as Campbell who was on a BA flight due to depart for Los Angeles.
Campbell spent five days mopping floors as part of a community service sentence in New York last year and was ordered to attend anger management classes after throwing a mobile phone at her housekeeper during a row over a pair of jeans.
The model has blamed her temper on resentment of her father who abandoned her as a child.
- REUTERS