By: Nigel Taylor
London, UK
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been disqualified from being a charity trustee for five years after the Charity Commission found serious mismanagement of funds at Fashion for Relief, which she founded. This included using charity funds to pay for Campbell’s stay at a five-star hotel in Cannes as well as spa treatments, room service, and cigarettes.
The supermodel was disqualified for five years after a Charity Commission inquiry found that Fashion for Relief passed on only a small fraction of the millions of pounds it raised from star-studded celebrity fashion events to good causes.
The charity inappropriately spent tens of thousands of pounds on luxury hotel rooms, flights, spa treatments, personal security, and cigarettes for Campbell, while unauthorized consultancy payments running into hundreds of thousands of pounds were made to one of Campbell’s fellow trustees, the commission said.
The model is one of three of the charity’s trustees to be disqualified as a result of the probe. After she was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters at the French Ministry for Culture on Thursday, Campbell told reporters: “I just found out today about the findings, and I’m extremely concerned, and we are investigating on our side as I was not in control of my charity, I put the control in the hands of a lawyer.“And so we are investigating to find out what and how, as everything I do and every penny I ever raised goes towards charities.”
The Charity Commission, which registers and regulates charities in England and Wales, opened an inquiry into Fashion for Relief in 2021.The charity, which it says was founded by Campbell in 2015, was dissolved and removed from the register of charities earlier this year.It had been set up with the aim of uniting the fashion industry to relieve poverty and advance health and education, by making grants to other organisations and giving resources towards global disasters. It hosted fundraising events to generate income, including in Cannes and London.
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