Supermodel Naomi Campbell, accused of assaulting her maid with a cell phone, failed to show up in court Wednesday.

She failed to give a reason for her absense.

Outside court, her lawyer said only that Naomi Campbell's absence was not related to work.

Naomi Campbell had not appeared in the New York and Italian fashion shows but declined to say why.

 

Naomi Campbell, 35, was arrested on March 31 for allegedly throwing a a jewel-encrusted cell phone at one of her employees in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans, resulting in a bloody head that required stitches.

Naomi Campbell was charged with second-degree assault, a felony that carries a minimum sentence of one year and a maximum of seven years in prison.

Campbell has called the charges “completely untrue.”

But the housekeeper, Ana Scolavino, was treated for an injury to the back of her head after the incident.

Campbell has been numerously accused of committing acts of violence and verbal abuse against some of her employees and associates.

In 2000, she pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant.

In March 2005, Naomi Campbell was said to have slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beaten her around the head with a Blackberry handheld personal organiser.

Italian actress Yvonne Scio has claimed the model left her "covered in blood" after a spat at a Rome hotel. Yvonne claimed: "She punched me in the face. She was like Mike Tyson." 

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