Naomi Campbell guilty, avoids jail in rage case
Published 5:00 am Sunday, June 22, 2008
LONDON — Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an “air rage” incident at Heathrow Airport.
She was also ordered to pay 200 pounds ($400) to each of the police officers she attacked and 150 pounds ($300) to Miles Sutherland, the captain of the British Airways plane she disrupted.
She also was ordered to pay a 2,300 pound ($4,600) fine.
She could have received six months’ jail time and a heavy fine for the six offenses stemming from a violent spat in April with British Airways cabin crew and police, who removed her from a flight in handcuffs while waiting on the tarmac at Heathrow.