- Supermodel Naomi Campbell is appealing a five-year ban from being a charity trustee, telling a tribunal she was "deceived".
- The ban, issued by the Charity Commission in 2024, followed findings of serious mismanagement of funds at her charity, Fashion For Relief.
- This mismanagement included using charity funds to pay for Campbell's five-star hotel stay, spa treatments and cigarettes in Cannes.
- Campbell claims her "only mistake" was trusting Bianka Hellmich, who she alleges forged her signature and lied about her credentials as a charity lawyer.
- The tribunal heard that Hellmich allegedly received over £500,000 from charity funds, and the allegations of forgery and fraud have been referred to the police.
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