What kind of diva climbs stairs? According to her former agent, Naomi Campbell definitely does not.
The 40-year-old model is being sued by fragrance marketing company Moodform Mission, for walking out on their contract. The company also claims Campbell cancelled an appearance to promote her own perfume line because she refused to walk up a flight of stairs, the New York Post reported.
In court documents, Campbell’s former manager Carole White, who is also a Moodform director, said the supermodel cancelled an appearance at a televised awards show in Australia in 2000 after finding out the elevator had broken down, meaning she would have to walk up two flights of stairs.
“Her failure to show was not only embarrassing, but caused friction with Wella [the manufacturers of the perfume] people in Australia,” White said of the 2000 event.
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The company is suing Campbell for leaving her 12-year-old perfume deal, but the feisty model isn’t backing down without a fight and is countersuing the company, saying it got money it wasn’t entitled to and White did not disclose her role with the company.
Campbell claimed she thought of White as a “a surrogate mother,” and said she had signed what ever White put in front of her without reading it.
“Ms Campbell is shocked and outraged by the false allegations made by her former agent and cohorts … who have made a fortune off of her,” the model’s spokeswoman said.
It seems like both parties have a long tough fight on their hands.
