CELEBRITY FASHION

Supermodel Trades Couture for Clean Up

Fashion Wire Daily - New York - Model Naomi Campbell started her five-day community service stint Monday as part of her sentence for throwing a cell phone at a maid's head. The 36-year-old mannequin showed up to the New York City's Sanitation Department's Lower East Side location donning slim brown pants, a black coat and a black newsboy cap. Ever the supermodel, Campbell sported stiletto ankle boots to report for duty. But the pair of rugged work boots slung over her shoulder was evidence of what she would wear to clean toilets and mop floors.

Campbell pleaded guilty in January to throwing her jewel-encrusted cell phone at Ana Scolavino, after the model's former maid failed to locate a pair of missing jeans. In exchange for her guilty plea, the judge ordered Campbell to pay for the maid's $363 medical bill, serve five days of community service, and attend a two-day anger management class.

This is not the first time the notoriously hotheaded model has gotten in trouble for her temper. In 2000 she pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to throwing a telephone at her then assistant Georgina Galanis. In October 2006, Campbell was arrested in London on suspicion of assault, and in November of the same year, the model's former housekeeper Gaby Gibson accused her ex-employer as being a "violent super-bigot," according to the New York Daily News.

The judge handling Campbell's case allowed the model to do her community service indoors, unlike fellow Brit Boy George - born George O'Dowd - who had to do his time outside wearing an orange vest in front of a dozen photographers. O'Dowd served five days of community service for falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment where cops found cocaine instead.

According to the Associated Press, the judge also allowed Campbell to start service until after the fashion shows in Paris, Milan and New York.