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NAOMI CAMPBELL SUED OVER PERFUME DEAL
A perfume company is kicking up a stink over supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Moodform Mission is suing the fiery fashionista for allegedly failing to pay the company a cut of her profits from her perfume line.
The 39-year-old catwalk queen is accused of reneging on a contract she signed in 1998 agreeing to give Moodform Mission a portion of her profits for developing her line.
According to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Campbell paid the Miami-based firm from 2001 when her five cosmetic ranges, with names like Cat Deluxe and Seductive Elixir, started going on the market.
The company worked for years to line up a deal for the London-born beauty with a German company which later became part of the giant Proctor & Gamble company.
The payments stopped last year, and the suit accuses Campbell of doing a direct deal with an affiliate of the German firm.
Lawyer Daniel Bright told the New York Daily News: “The payments stopped coming. I guess she just decided she didn't want to pay any more.
“She's still making money from these products and so is the company that's selling the stuff. It's my clients who got cut out.”
The suit seeks unspecified damages but Bright would not say how much could be involved.
“It's significant,” he said. “This stuff sells well.”
A spokesman for Campbell said she “categorically denies” the allegations.
“Ms Campbell trusts our legal system and does not intend to litigate in the media,” he said. “She is confident that the judge and the jury in this case will fully vindicate her.”
Campbell has settled several lawsuits after being accused of attacking her household staff, and did a week of community service in Manhattan in 2007 after pleading guilty to assaulting a maid.
She also pleaded guilty to cursing, kicking and spitting at police officers at Heathrow Airport in a rage over missing luggage, and was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.