Naomi Campbell denies knowing about Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘indefensible’ crimes
While Naomi Campbell may have partied with Jeffrey Epstein, she says she knew nothing about his “indefensible” crimes.The supermodel addressed her ties to the multimillionaire pedophile in a bizarre YouTube video on Tuesday, where she responded to questions from an unidentified, off-screen reporter as though she was on a real news show.
“What [Epstein] has done is indefensible, and when I heard it sickened me to my stomach just like everybody else,” said the 49-year-old fashion icon.
“I’ve had my fair share of sexual predators and thank God I had good people around who protected me from this,” she added. “I stand with the victims. They are scarred for life.”
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, and his alleged madame Ghislaine Maxwell, were pictured on a yacht in the French Rivierawhere Campbell was celebrating her 31st birthday with her then-boyfriend, Flavio Briatore. Giuffre, now Roberts, was 17 at the time.
Campbell said she was introduced to Epstein at that 2001 party in Saint-Tropez, by Briatore, an Italian businessman.
In addition, “He was always front-and-center at the Victoria’s Secret shows,” she said.
Campbell has been a staple on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway and appeared in ad campaigns for the brand, owned by Epstein’s billionaire benefactor Leslie Wexner.
According to depositions given in a recently unsealed lawsuit, Campbell was also a guest on the late sex offender’s private jet — though she doesn’t address that in the faux-interview.
Her video message focused on a Mail on Sunday article that questioned why she was receiving a humanitarian award when she has “rubbed shoulders” with the likes of Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
“I find it extraordinary that of all the hundreds of thousands of people that I’ve stood next to to take pictures with at a public event they’ve only chosen these few,” she said, calling the article “character assassination.”
She then whined that “it’s going to be very difficult to be photographed at public events because you’re going to be thinking, ‘If you do take a picture, it’s going to be taken out of context and used in a negative way.'”
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