LONDON, Oct. 5 — Supermodel Naomi Campbell has admitted there are shortcomings in her role as director of the charity she founded, Fashion for Relief, media reported yesterday.
However, Ms Campbell insisted she had never committed any financial misconduct or misused the charity for personal gain while running the charity.
Fashion for Relief did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment and Mr Campbell could not be reached in London late yesterday.
A spokesperson for Ms Campbell told the Guardian that she “may not have been as actively involved in the day-to-day running of the charity as she should have been” and added: “We do not support any form of financial misconduct. “I was never involved,” he added.
Last month, she was banned from acting as a charity trustee for five years after an investigation found that funds raised for good causes were spent on spa treatments and cigarettes.
“Naomi has never received any compensation for her involvement with Fashion for Relief, nor has she ever claimed any personal expenses to the organization,” the Guardian reported in a statement released on behalf of Campbell on Friday. Quoted and reported.
She founded Fashion for Relief in 2005, which aimed to raise money for humanitarian causes by staging runway shows, but the charity was removed from the list of British charities this year. Ta.
An investigation published by the Charity Commission into the charity found multiple instances of fraud and mismanagement, and the commission announced it would expel Mr Campbell and two others from the trust as a result.
Between 2016 and 2022, regulators found that only 8.5% of Fashion for Relief’s spending went to charitable grants. In addition to the fraudulent payments of £290,000 (RM1.61 million) to one of the trustees, the money was also used to pay for room service, spa treatments and cigarettes.
