Mandela bans Naomi Campbell from his b'day concert
News
-Staff
By Staff
New
York
(ANI):
Nelson
Mandela
has
banned
catwalk
queen
Naomi
Campbell
from
appearing
on
stage
at
his
90th
birthday
concert.
According
to
the
Daily
Mail
of
London,
the
former
South
African
leader
told
organisers
to
take
the
38-year-old
supermodel
off
the
bill
for
London's
Hyde
Park
charity
event
after
she
was
fined
and
sentenced
to
200
hours'
community
service
for
assaulting
two
police
officers
on
board
a
British
Airways
flight
at
Heathrow
in
April.
Mandela
felt
the
arrest
was
at
odds
with
his
charity's
goals,
the
paper
said,
reports
the
New
York
Daily
News.
The
concert
will
raise
funds
for
the
46664
AIDS
charity
organized
by
the
revered
figure.
The
five-digit
number
was
Mandela's
inmate
ID
during
his
27
years
in
prison
under
apartheid.