Posted by Jan den Breejen on June 28, 2000 at 03:32:10:
Naomi Campbell - the female version of the 'O.J. Simpson archetype'?
Case text:
CHEATING NAOMI CAMPBELL in love-triangle uproar
She beat me up because I wouldn't LIE tor her, says assistant.
HOT-HEADED SUPER-MODEL Naomi Campbell has been accused of attacking her personal assistant for refusing to cover up Naomi's secret affair! The catwalk QUEEN has been having steamy romps with "Shakespeare in Love" hunk Joseph Fiennes behind the back of her longtime boyfriend Flavio Briatore, according to her aide Vanessa Frisbee. And when Vanessa said she wouldn't lie for Naomi anymore (I guess mrs. Frisbee is an E3; just like Naomi; jdb) and quit, she says the 30-year-old beauty threw her against a wall and nearly knocked her out. Now Vanessa's reported Naomi to cops in London, where the assistant was treated for internal bruising to the muscles in her back, rib cage and neck. "Naomi thinks she can use her FAME and MONEY TO WALK ALL OVER PEOPLE," said Vanessa, 35. "I was expected to lie for her, organize her meetings with Fiennes and listen to her (allways listen to a bluffing and bitchy E3 image 'queen'; especially when she is your boss!!; jdb) about what a wonderful lover he was! "She PROMISED Flavio she was away on a photo shoot (don't automatically trustan E3's promises!; jdb), but really she was in bed with Joe. " Later when I couldn't come up with the lies she wanted, she went for me like a woman possessed." It's not the first time Naomi's SHORT FUSE has gotten her into trouble. Last year she had to make an out-of-court payment to an other former assistant who was left bleeding when Naomi hit her in the head with a mobile phone. And Naomi spent a month in rehab last year for ANGER management after Flavio told her to calm down or he'd walk. Her latest spat came after she started cheating on 45-year-old millionaire boyfriend Flavio with Fiennes three months ago, revealed Vanessa. Vanessa says after she quit, she walked to an
elevator in Naomi's penthouse apartment, followed by a screaming, swearing
supermodel. Vanessa claims Naomi grabbed her and threw her into the back of the elevator nearly knocking her out. Naomi tried to grab her again but was hauled off by her hairdresser, according to Vanessa. Police said they were investigating Vanessa's report.
+++ Jan's analysis
I've looked at some other information regarding this 'affair' and all things point to one character style for Naomi; Self-Confident/Narcissistic disorder:
- Naomi stopped screaming and suddenly softly called Vanessa's name; Vanessa stopped for a moment so that Naomi could grab her and throw her to the wall of the elevator; very much cunning instincts (compare with Max Schreck in Batman Returns making a feint and then pushing his poor secretary out of the window - after which she becomes catwoman)
- Image related anger
- Goal focussed lying
- Sex as sports game: she blufs against her secretary that he is THE BEST lover she has had and the number of sex acts/night as 'performance indicator'
- Importance of appearance/looks; after a fan videotaped her when she was sleeping in the airplane she became angry and started screaming, diatribing the fan and calling his girlfriend 'an UGLY bitch with a head looking like an alien monster'
- Feeling like a queen and thinking that she has prerogatives which common people don't have; expecting to be treated as queen; when her secretary tried to wake her in quite a normal way Naomi screamed that she was to be awakened 'in a more friendly way'
Now look at these indicators of the narcissitically disordered person which are typing Naomi:
- has a grandiose sense of self-importance; expects to be recognized as superior
- fantasies of unlimited power and brilliance
- believes that she is unique; belonging to the elite of high-status people
- lacks empathy (towards her secretary and her friend; she just didn't care; shameles liar)
- shows arrogant, haughty behavior or attitudes
Jan