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| | Naomi Campbell was given a five-year ban for her insane 'Fashion for Relief' grift | | Added 13 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For many years, Naomi Campbell organized Fashion for Relief, a charity fashion show attached to London Fashion Week. There hasn?t been a Fashion for Relief event in years since 2019, from what I can see. Fashion for Relief supposedly raised money to support charities working in Africa. Well, Britain?s Charity Commission did some digging and they discovered that nothing was as it seemed. Now Naomi Campbell has been banned from ?being a charity trustee? for five years, following the Charity Commissions investigation.
Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee after a watchdog investigation uncovered widespread evidence of financial misconduct at the poverty relief charity she founded. The supermodel was disqualified for five years after a Charity Commission inquiry found that Fashion for Relief passed on only a small fraction of the millions of pounds it raised from star-studded celebrity fashion events to good causes.
The charity inappropriately spent tens of thousands of pounds on luxury hotel rooms, flights, spa treatments, personal security and cigarettes for Campbell, while unauthorised consultancy payments running into hundreds of thousands of pounds were made to one of Campbell?s fellow trustees, the commission said.
It found that over a five-year period from 2016, Fashion for Relief raised just under 4.8m from a series of fashion shows but paid out only 389,000 in grants to partner charities once the cost of events and other expenses were accounted for.
Nearly 350,000 was later recovered from the charity by interim managers appointed by the commission and paid to the charities Save the Children and the Mayor?s Fund for London, which reported Fashion for Relief to the regulators four years ago after failing to receive promised payments from fundraising agreements..
Campbell?s fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich, who the inquiry found received 290,000 in unauthorised consultancy fees and 26,000 a year in travel expenses from the charity over a two-year period, was disqualified from being a charity trustee for nine years. Hellmich proposed to the commission to repay the fees and expenses in February 2022 and a repayment plan was agreed with the commission. The full amount was repaid in April 2023. A third trustee, Veronica Chou, was banned for four years.
Fashion for Relief has previously argued that it was not solely a fundraising charity but also a platform that, through its high-profile fundraising events, encouraged donors to give directly to its partner charities and good causes. The commission report, however, reveals that it did not immediately pay Save the Children ?450,000 (375,000) raised at a 2017 fundraising event. Fashion for Relief paid some of the funds, and the remaining money it owed ? 147,000 ? was eventually paid by Fashion for Relief?s interim managers in January 2023.
[From The Guardian]
The commission?s investigation also had details like Naomi using Fashion for Relief funds to stay at a ??3,000-a-night hotel room? in Cannes. She also used the charity?s funds for ?just under ?8,000 on spa treatments, room service, purchases of cigarettes and hotel products.? Sounds like she was using her charity as her own personal piggy bank. 4.8 million raised from Fashion for Relief events and only 389,000 in charitable grants? And Naomi was only suspended for five years? She should have been given a lifetime ban for this insane grift.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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| | George Clooney & a Versace-clad Amal Clooney attended their Albie Awards | | Added 13 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For several years now, George and Amal Clooney have been throwing a party ?for justice? in New York. They call the party the Albie Awards, and it?s supposed to be a fundraiser/awards something or other associated with the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Last night was the annual awards show. Amal wore a slinky black gown by Versace (Donatella attended) and she had a fresh blowout. They both spoke to People Magazine about their marriage today is their tenth wedding anniversary, and while there are persistent rumors about the state of their marriage, they put on a big show last night.
George told People: ?I would support anything my wife is involved in. She?s always on the right side of history, and I?m always so proud to be in the same room with her no matter what and this is an event where we get to focus all the attention on the people who don?t get enough attention.?
Amal adds, ?He?s an amazing advocate, and it just means so much to me to be able to do this work together and for him to help bring to life some of the stories that we?re telling tonight.?
Responding to the sweet comments from his wife, the actor jokingly tells PEOPLE, ?I?m giving her money right now, you can?t see, right behind her back.?
The couple, whose 10th wedding anniversary is on Friday, Sept. 27, also shared their plans.
?I?m taking her somewhere tonight, but she doesn?t know where,? George tells PEOPLE.
[From People]
Ah, jokes about paying his wife, how charming. Obviously, I?m still not over George?s skullduggery in recent months, starting with his NYT op-ed which, much like George, has aged like milk. He?s still being asked about it too in Venice, he said that no one will remember what he did. Meanwhile, his sad little bro-movie with a credibly accused child abuser comes out today on streaming, after Apple pulled it from a wide theatrical release. Perhaps now would be the time for George to pass the torch to someone younger. We can have a mini-primary to find a replacement movie star who is younger and cooler.
Celebrity guests at the Albies event included: Leslie Bibb, Jimmy Fallon, Emily Blunt, Cate Blanchett, John Krasinski, Donatella Versace, Mark Ronson, John Oliver, Melinda Gates, Busy Philipps, Ariana Debose, Shailene Woodley and more.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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| | Queen Camilla wants Charles to avoid meeting Prince Harry during his visit | | Added 13 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Before Prince Harry arrived in London back in May, he contacted his father?s office about a possible meeting while they were both in town. King Charles and/or his courtiers rejected this meeting privately, and Harry issued a public statement saying that he would not see his father due to the king?s ?full program this week.? Charles then pranced around a garden party and handed a military appointment to William. Not only that, but Charles went on the attack for weeks, screaming about how Harry should have begged him for a meeting and even then, Charles still would have rejected him because Charles hates Harry and so does Camilla! It was all very childish and chaotic from Buckingham Palace and a reminder that Charles and Camilla do not have the temperament to be in charge of anything. Well, Harry is due in London on Monday for the WellChild Awards. So obviously, Charles and Camilla are making Harry?s visit all about their immature psychodrama.
Camilla wants Charles to skip meeting Harry: King Charles III would like to meet with his son, Prince Harry, when he visits the U.K. next week, but is weighing counsel from advisers, including his wife, that it would be unwise to do so. Queen Camilla wants Charles to skip a meeting with Harry to avoid stress as he fights cancer, one of her friends told The Daily Beast.
Charles plans to be in Scotland during Harry?s visit: However, Charles will be in Scotland next week, The Daily Beast has confirmed, and has no intention of traveling, while Harry is expected to be based in London. It is not impossible, of course, that Harry could travel to Scotland if invited. He is certainly capable of traveling around the U.K.; last time Harry was in the country he spent a night at his mother?s ancestral home, Althorp, and, as The Daily Beast exclusively revealed, visited her grave, which is located on an island on the sprawling country estate.
Of course Harry?s team would not confirm any of this?? Harry?s team would not confirm to The Daily Beast when he is arriving into the U.K., where he is staying, or how long he is planning to be on British soil. The awards ceremony, which honors seriously ill children and is one of Harry?s most important causes, is scheduled for Monday evening.
Charles wants to heal the relationship he destroyed: Meanwhile Charles, reminded of his mortality following his diagnosis with cancer for which he is undergoing grueling treatment, would like to heal the relationship with Harry both for personal reasons and to ease pressure on the monarchy itself, a friend says. The friend said: ?The king has an instinctive impulse towards Christian reconciliation, and his cancer diagnosis has only sharpened that. He wants this settled, not just because he loves both his sons, but because it has been so destabilizing for the monarchy.?
The security issue: However the king is understood to feel his hands are tied by the constitutional awkwardness that might arise if Harry were to directly lobby him over his security provision. His son and heir Prince William?s very clear views on the matter of his brother are also part of the king?s calculations about how and when any reconciliation might be effected. Although William sent birthday greetings to Harry recently, the two brothers are completely estranged and no longer speak as a result of William?s fury of what he sees as Harry?s betrayal of him and wife Kate Middleton in his memoir.
Camilla hates Harry: Camilla is said by friends to be one of those who has not encouraged a meeting with Harry, as she does not want her husband to be subjected to unnecessary stress before his trip to Australia in mid-October, ahead of which he is gathering his strength at Birkhall, his retreat in the Scottish Highlands. The friend of Camilla said: ?She has been the principal voice urging Charles to slow down and take things easy. The last thing she wants him to do is to get stressed out over a meeting with Harry.?
Camilla is now telling people that she saw Harry in February too: The Daily Beast understands that Camilla was also present at the meeting, marking the first time they had spoken face to face since he cast toxic aspersions on her in his memoir and in interviews promoting it, saying she was prepared to leave ?bodies in the street? in her quest to be made queen. Harry did not apologize to her at that encounter for his remarks, The Daily Beast has been told by a friend of Camilla?s.
[From The Daily Beast]
Camilla has been telling lies and briefing the press about Harry?s February visit since the very day it happened. I still believe that it was one of the rare moments that Charles told Camilla to get out, that he wanted to have a private conversation with Harry. Camilla?s behavior indicates as much she?s still pissed that she was thrown out of the meeting, and she?s been demanding that Charles refuse to see Harry ever since. And now Camilla is huffing about how Harry didn?t apologize to her. WHY WOULD HE? If anything, Harry went a lot easier on her than he could have. Anyway, all of this is about Camilla and what she wants. Charles is too weak to stand up to Camilla AND the courtiers who want to see him isolated and estranged from his son.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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