Naomi Campbell denies assault

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has denied claims she hospitalised an Italian paparazzo after an altercation in Sicily.

Naomi Campbell has said claims that she had assaulted an Italian photographer are "completely untrue". Paparazzi photographer Gaetano Di Giovanni claimed he suffered scratches and facial bruising after the model attacked him recently in Sicily. "First she hit with her bag, screaming at me and then she tried to slap me. I managed to avoid her - but her nails still got my eye," he told Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "For a few seconds I could not see a thing. I could hear that her bodyguards and her boyfriend were trying to drag her away." However, Naomi's spokesman has said there was no truth to Di Giovanni's story. "Media reports circulating that Naomi Campbell attacked a photographer in Lipari, Sicily are completely untrue," she told the Daily Mail. "The photographer was seen following Naomi Campbell on a small boat, taking photographs, the day after the alleged incident."

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