UNICEF reported Naomi Campbell’s charity to commission over 2019 fashion event, organisation says
Naomi Campbell’s charity was reported to the Charity Commission by UNICEF over a fashion event in 2019, the humanitarian organisation has said.
It comes after the supermodel was banned from being a charity trustee for five years last week, following an inquiry that concluded only a small proportion of money raised by Fashion For Relief went to good causes.
After the findings were made public by the Charity Commission, Campbell said she was “extremely concerned”, that she was “not in control” of the charity, and that an investigation on her part was under way.
Fashion For Relief was dissolved and removed from the register of charities earlier this year.
Campbell at the 2019 event. Pic: AP
Now, humanitarian organisation UNICEF has said it did make a report to the Charity Commission over a star-studded event held during London Fashion Week in 2019.
According to the Guardian, in a brochure for the event on a page displaying the UNICEF logo, Fashion For Relief said funds raised would “support UNICEF’s efforts to provide the essential interventions to protect, save lives and ensure the rights of all children, everywhere”.
UNICEF has said it never held any partnership with Fashion For Relief and did not receive any funds from the show.
In a statement, a spokesperson for UNICEF said: “We take fundraising compliance very seriously and UNICEF UK reported Fashion For Relief 2019 to the Charity Commission, as per our statutory requirements.
“We have never held any official partnership with Fashion For Relief and we have never received any funds from the 2019 event.”
An official ambassadorial role with UNICEF “comes after many years of commitment and support”, the spokesperson added.
A spokesperson for Campbell said she “never held herself out as a representative of UNICEF, although she worked with them”.
Details on the Fashion For Relief website say proceeds went to the Mayor’s Fund for London.
Campbell was discovered as a schoolgirl, and she went on to become the first black British model to appear on the cover of British Vogue.
The 54-year-old welcomed her second child, a son, last year, following a daughter born in 2021.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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