Career
The future model was born on May 22, 1970 in London, her mother, Valerie Campbell, was a ballerina.
The father and mother parted that the girl had gone through quite painfully. In consequence, Naomi also decided to link her life with art and entered the London Academy.
However, the main event in her career happened directly on the street ... Naomi after school did not want to go home, and she was walking along the London streets, where she, the head of the model agency Cowen Garden, suggested that she take part in the samples. As a result, Naomi was replaced by a black model who did not come to the shooting, and got on the cover of Elle. And in 1988 she entered the professional podium, taking part in the show for Ralph Lauren.
The stereotype of blond, light-skinned models was destroyed. The dark-skinned Naomi with a cat's gait became the first black model to appear on the cover of Time magazine, as well as British and French Vogue. And a little later the girl conquered America, becoming the face of several brands, entered the top five supermodels along with such colleagues in the shop as Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.
To the model with a very exotic appearance began to receive proposals from such fashion houses as Gianni Versace, Valentino, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, at whose shows she went to the podium. During her career, the Black Panther, as they began to call Naomi Campbell, has been on the covers of over 500 magazines, including posing nude for Playboy magazine.
In addition, the new star of the world of fashion not only had a chic appearance, her acting abilities were appreciated by many directors.
Since the 80s, quite young Naomi started acting in films and TV projects. As a result, in her "record" list about 30 paintings, both artistic and documentary, as well as work on television. After a while, in 2003 Naomi even managed to become the leading reality TV show. In a popular program, she reincarnated students in fashion designers, shared with them experience in the fashion industry, and also launched her own clothing label.
Black-and-white beauty Naomi Campbell starred in the Bob Marley and Wailers video for the song "Is This Love", and later in the video for Michael Jackson, Culture Club, Jay-Z, P.Diddy, Notorious BIG, Macy Gray, Prince, Usher, and in the video of the Madonna "Erotica", the footage of which was included in the book of the singer "Sex".
Naomi Campbell did not refuse to try her hand at being a singer. Her single "Love and Tears" was a hit, and Baby Woman's solo album was sold at around 1 million copies worldwide (especially widely in Japan).
Personal life
With a personal life, unlike a career, the beautiful mulatto did not have everything smoothly from the youngest years. After leaving her parents' home, where the 16-year-old Naomi lived in a constant state of stress from the family scandals of her mother and stepfather, and becoming a model, she tasted adulthood in all its glory.
Outrageous Naomi, she never refused herself new novels, and the number of men who visited her bed quickly began to be measured in dozens. And no wonder, the passionate Black Panther, as she was called in life, was not deprived of male attention and admiration. The model had one more positive feature. With all her lovers after parting, she maintained warm, friendly relations, maintained communication. Often, passion, between Naomi and the new fan was a fire, the heat of passion was akin to the elements. However, after a while, emotions subsided, and Naomi parted ways with the gentleman.
So, at the beginning of her career, she spun an affair with the world-famous boxer Mike Tyson. A little later was not deprived of the attention of the popular in the 90's actor Sylvester Stallone. In addition, Naomi Campbell had a romantic relationship with musician Eric Clapton, Prince Albert, Formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore, actor Robert de Niro and dancer Joaquin Cortes.
By the way it is Cortez who is the first man with whom the black beauty had a long lasting serious relationship. However, a happy novel by Naomi and Joaquin Kotres was destroyed ... .. by another man. The girl, somehow returning home, found Cortes in the arms of her lover. It was so amazing to the model that dreamed of creating a family with a dancer and having children, that she decided to commit suicide. The doctors, nevertheless, managed to save Naomi. Cortez to make amends, asked for forgiveness, visited her in the hospital, paid attention like no other. Literally after a while, the couple renewed their relationship, but they nevertheless gave a break, and Naomi left him.
Later, the supermodel was engaged to some time with the bass player of the "U-2" band Adam Clayten. But Naomi's most serious relationship with that period was with Usher in 2004. It was then the whole secular party, talked about the fact that there was a wedding.
But a year later the heat of passion was extinguished in these relations. In 2005, Naomi, after parting with Asher, announced that there would be no wedding.
The model had fame, adoration, money, fame, but in love one of the most beautiful women of the planet was catastrophically unlucky.
Naomi dreamed of a great love, she wanted to meet and love a man who would be her not only her husband and lover, but also her father and friend. Black panther dreamed that a man would love her not for wealth and fame, but simply because she is. Beauty Naomi began to give preference to more mature gentlemen, intelligent, wealthy, educated, sincere and above all with well-developed paternal qualities.
And she herself was not averse to turning for such a man from an aggressive panther into a meek lamb. The next novel by Naomi Campbell became relations with the Brazilian businessman Marcus Elias. However, apparently, there was little desire for such changes ...
Scandals By the way, on the part of scandalous situations Naomi Campbell is in the lead among the models. Her unbridled character made her figure figure not only on the famous catwalks, but also caused gossips and scandals on the occasion and without him. She also had problems with drugs, she was even treated for drug addiction and alcoholism. The dark-skinned beauty was also arrested several times for using physical strength and insulting others, including assistants on set. In 2007, Campbell was tried for attacking his servants. The model insulted her and threw a mobile phone into the girl. She was found guilty on this fact and sentenced to 5 days of community service, as well as paying bills for the girl's treatment and passing the courses on anger management. As correctional work, Naomi had to wash the floors in the garages for garbage trucks.However, the biggest payback for "sins" was the conclusion of the attending physician model. The physician destroyed all the dreams of Naomi, he acquired a posterity, he stated that it is simply not possible to conceive and tolerate a healthy baby with such a lifestyle as Naomi (drug addiction, smoking, neuroses, lack of proper nutrition and even physical exercise).
In consequence, to fill their need to take care of someone, the model actively engaged in charity and found in it many positive moments.
Fate brought her beauties to life. Having met this love, 40-year-old model had even to change the country of residence ... But about everything in order.
Over the past decade, Naomi has not missed a single Cannes festival, which coincides with her birthday. And besides, Cannes is the perfect place for a party, these days all the friends of Campbell come here.
Three years ago, at one of these parties, Naomi met a Russian multi-billionaire, Vladislav Doronin, co-owner and chairman of the Board of Directors of Capital Group. The black beauty appeared hope that she met exactly the man of her dreams. According to the close environment of the top model, it was love at first sight.
A year later, in August 2009, Vladislav and Naomi were to have a wedding. However, the look of the supermodel in the wedding dress has not yet pleased her fans. The celebration was never scheduled, several times the date of the marriage of Vladislav and Naomi was postponed. The reason for this is the difficulty in divorcing his wife Catherine.
With his wife Vladislav Doronin connected fate, when the girl was only 16 years old. In the marriage, Vladislav and Catherine lived more than 20 years, they have a daughter Katya.
Vladislav is a Swedish citizen and his legal wife is Catherine, a US citizen, where their marriage was registered. Taking into account the period of life together and the presence of a minor child, Catherine Doronina, according to American legislation, began to claim half of her husband's fortune. In the end, the couple managed to come to an agreement, Catherine signed documents on divorce, for which she received $ 10 million.
Meanwhile, the romance of Vladislav and Naomi developed very rapidly. Lovers always appeared together in public. The man showered gifts on his beloved. So, for example, in London at the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Nelson Mandela, Doronin tried to buy his beloved bronze statuette in the form of an African leader's hand. The value of this lot during the auction rose to 1.7 million pounds sterling. However, the oligarch's companion modestly asked to donate this amount directly to the Mandela charity.
Businessman Doronin arranged for Saint-Tropez, on his yacht chic evening in honor of the expiration of the penalty model for a scandal in London's Heathrow Airport. It was a real holiday.
During the event, a gift wrap was delivered to the ship, in which there was a necklace of the work of the famous jeweler Harry Winston, decorated with 142 diamonds worth more than half a million euros.
Once Naomi mentioned to Vladislav that she dreams of having an apartment in Brazil. Literally Doronin soon fulfilled the desire of his woman and bought Naomi penthouse in San Paolo worth $ 18.5 million.
Despite the fact that Naomi has several properties around the world.
Campbell said that she likes in Russia, and she does not mind living closer to her lover. As it turned out, in the plans of the model, there was a desire to move to permanent residence, to take root in Russia, to build a family nest together with Doronin.
It was Doronin who discovered the mysterious Russia for Naomi. Many Russian stars easily accepted Naomi in a secular circle. She made friends with the famous Russian couturier Valentin Yudashkin, businesswoman Olga Slutsker, singer Anita Tsoy and many others.
One of the main events of the past years was that the dark-skinned Naomi has now finally joined the Russian beau monde and show business. She is invited to New Year's lights, concerts on domestic TV channels, she makes reports for the Oprah Winfrey show from the capital of Russia.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell, engaged in charity, organized in Russia a fund for children with a difficult life. For Naomi, as it turned out, charity is not an empty word, not a samopiar, but rendering real help to those who need it.
Russia Naomi, with her words, fell in love with all her soul, the southern beauty perfectly feels herself in an exotic country for her. Now Moscow is one of her favorite places on the planet. The cupolas of the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed remind her of bulbs, she likes to walk around Red Square and to bathe in a Russian bath.
In the steam room, a star walks when experiencing severe fatigue or simply for relaxation. The star perfectly tolerates not only steam, but also "beating" with a broom, jumping into cold water, and then, following tradition, drinking beer with crayfish.
Despite the unprecedented age, in Russia Naomi continues to stay on top. Even the Russian Vogue invited her to become the editor of one of her numbers, she was constantly invited to shoot in advertising. Yes, and often the beauty is now working on the podium, now only for Russian designers.
In one of the glossy Russian magazines, a very candid Naomi photo shoot appeared in the image of a female cat named "Russian Winter by Naomi Campbell." It is rumored that this photo session was presented by Naomi's future spouse, so that the beauty does not miss in an unfamiliar country.
In Moscow Naomi leads an active social life, as befits all beauties from Rublyovka. After moving to a famous billionaire, a secular party, actively discussed rumors that at one event, Naomi confessed: "This time I will get married! Vladi is a person who is very suitable for me."
Not so long ago, Vladislav introduced his girlfriend to his parents. Acquaintance was held at the birthday party of the goddess of a billionaire.
In early 2009, literally in all media began to appear information that the novel is not limited to, and the move of the beauty to the territory of the beloved is not accidental, they say, all foreshadows an imminent wedding. Indeed, the couple soon announced the engagement. The wedding celebration was scheduled to be played in mid-August 2009. Oligarch Vladislav Doronin for his bride ordered an exclusive wedding ring of white and pink gold decorated with rare diamonds, with an estimated cost of 200 thousand euros. The order of the bride worth 100 thousand euros, Naomi ordered from close friends of Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbany. However, for certain reasons, the marriage was first postponed to December 7 next year. The event was to last several days in the ancient temple of Luxor, built in the XIV century BC.
His honeymoon Vladislav and Naomi planned in one of the most ancient Egyptian hotels, built in 1886. However, 2 days after the appointed date, a number of Egyptian media reported that the wedding was postponed to February 10, 2011. However, the celebration did not take place until now. Well, the fans still hope that the Russian fairy tale in the life of an exotic beauty will certainly be with a happy ending in the form of a wedding. That's it, Naomi Campbell's life in Russia.