Carole - 'Naomi Flirted With Taylor'

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oi-Suparna Chakaraborthy

By Suparna Chakaraborthy

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 14:48

Naomi Campbell"s former agent Carole White, has revealed that the model and Charles Taylor were "mildly flirting" on the evening before the Liberian leader was alleged to have given the supermodel "blood diamonds".

Carole White said that during the dinner at Nelson Mandela's residence,Taylor promised to gift Naomi Campbell a diamond ring. She beamed sitting next to Taylor.

Carole White said, "Naomi was very excited and told me ''He's going to give me some diamonds''. She leaned back in her chair to talk to me. smiling and nodding in agreement".

"They were being charming to each other, mildly flirting. They were just being affable. Naomi, I think, was flirting with him and he was flirting back," said White.

Naomi is accompanying Taylor in the trial which he is facing for being accused of supporting brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone's civil war between 1996 and 2002.