Mia Farrow has given evidence in the war crimes tribunal, contradicting the evidence given by Naomi Campbell last week.
Farrow claimed that Campbell had told her she had received a “huge diamond” from Charles Taylor and was quite excited when discussing it the next day at breakfast.
“Naomi Campbell joined us and before she even sat down she recounted the events of the evening. She said that in the night she had been awakened. Some men were knocking at her door. They were sent by Charles Taylor and they had given her a huge diamond,” she said.
Farrow had attended the event with her two sons and daughter and admitted under cross examination, that her children recalled the event well.
“I also discussed it with my children, who remember exactly the same thing,” she said. “It was an unforgettable moment. I remember when she came in on the breakfast and said she received a diamond from Charles Taylor.”
Asked whether she had noticed Campbell and Taylor flirting with one another, Farrow stated she had not.
UN prosecutors have accused Mr Taylor, 62, of taking illegally mined diamonds from Sierra Leone insurgents in return for weapons that were used in a campaign of terror which killed 120,000 people and included child enslavement and mutilation atrocities.
Crucial to the case is the allegation that Taylor’s staff gave Miss Campbell uncut gems as a present after they met at the star studded gala banquet attended by Miss Farrow, the Nelson Mandela, his future wife Graca Machel, Quincy Jones, Imran and Jemina Khan.
