Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee in England and Wales for 5 years after an investigation into her charitable group uncovered proof of economic misconduct.
On Thursday, the Charity Fee, which registers and regulates charities in England and Wales, launched a report following a three-year inquiry into the 54-year-old British supermodel’s charity Trend For Reduction, which decided that the group was “poorly ruled and had insufficient monetary administration.”
The Charity Fee reported that it discovered “a number of cases of misconduct and / or mismanagement” at Trend For Reduction and found solely 8.5% of its total spending went towards charitable grants and causes from April 2016 to July 2022.
As well as, the investigation recognized that a few of Trend For Reduction’s expenditures had been “not affordable. It revealed that hundreds of kilos in charitable funds had been spent on a luxurious resort keep for Campbell in Cannes, France, together with spa remedies, room service and cigarettes.Â
Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee after an investigation into her nonprofit Trend for Reduction. (Â GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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On Friday, Campbell responded to the Charity Fee’s findings, which she stated had been “deeply flawed” in an announcement to the PA information company, by way of CBS Information.
“To start with, I acknowledge that, because the face of Trend for Reduction, I’m finally answerable for its conduct,” Campbell stated. “Sadly, I used to be not concerned within the day-to-day operations of the group, and I entrusted the authorized and operational administration to others.”
The Vogue cowl star added that she has “instructed new advisers to undertake an in depth investigation of what transpired.”
Moreover, Campbell informed the Related Press that “every part I do and each penny I ever raised goes to charity.”
The Charity Fee discovered that charitable funds had been spent on a luxurious resort keep for Campbell together with room service, spa remedies and cigarettes. (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Photographs)
The Charity Fee additionally discovered that fellow Trend for Reduction trustee Bianka Hellmich acquired round 290,000 kilos ($385,000) of unauthorized funds for consultancy companies, which was in breach of the charity’s structure. She has been disqualified as a trustee for 9 years. The opposite trustee, Veronica Chou, was barred for 4 years.
“Each penny I ever raised goes to charity.”
Trend for Reduction, which was based in 2005 within the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, was dissolved and faraway from the register of charities in March.Â
On its web site, which continues to be energetic, the charity stated that it offered trend initiatives and initiatives in New York, London, Cannes, Moscow, Mumbai and Dar es Salaam, elevating greater than $15 million for good causes world wide.
Campbell stated the findings had been “deeply flawed.” (Picture by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photographs)
The charity had been arrange with the intention of uniting the style business to alleviate poverty and advance well being and schooling, by making grants to different organizations and giving assets in direction of international disasters.
The fee stated that round 344,000 kilos ($460,000) has been recovered and {that a} additional 98,000 kilos of charitable funds have been protected. These funds had been used to make donations to 2 different charities and settle excellent liabilities.  
The Related Press contributed to this report.
