British supermodel Naomi Campbell was in repeated contact with Jeffrey Epstein before and after his 2008 conviction for sex offences with an underage girl.
Bombshell documents in the latest tranche of Epstein files released by the US Justice Department last week appear to show Campbell repeatedly inviting him to high profile fashion parties, and to her blowout 40th birthday party in Cannes.
There are also a series of messages relating to Campbell requesting a lift on his private jet, and calling him repeatedly.
‘Please call Naomi right away,’ runs one message from 2015. ‘She says she really needs to speak to you.’
Another from the same year from Campbell reads: ‘I want to see Jeffrey.. is he going to Morocco?’
Some of the meetings appear to relate to possible business advice from the late financier. Campbell asks if he will look at her ‘swimwear collection’ for Victoria’s Secret in an early message in 2005.
‘Hello Naomi here. Would like to know when I can speak to Jeffrey about my swim suit line for a meeting with VS. I have pics and some of the suits with me.’
Naomi Campbell pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell in September 2002
Naomi Campbell in St Tropez in 2001 with a guest thought to be Epstein, in lilac, and Virginia Giuffre, in pink
In another message, Epstein’s PA arranges for Campbell and ‘her boy’ to meet retail Queen Linda Wachner at Epstein’s house in 2010.
Her name is also mentioned in the accounts of two alleged Epstein victims, one of whom says she first met Epstein at a party at his New York mansion at which Campbell was present.
The other says that Epstein would tell her that he could get her work with the lingerie label Victoria’s Secret because: ‘He knew Naomi Campbell.’
However by 2010 the relationship looks more like a friendship than a business arrangement as Campbell appears to have invited him to three parties: her ‘Fire and Ice’ birthday Gala in Cannes, which was thrown by her then-boyfriend, Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin, to a charity fashion gala which she was organising, and to a Dolce and Gabbana salute to her in Paris.
An email sent by a third party in 2012 invited Campbell to join Jeffrey Epstein and filmmaker Woody Allen for dinner in Paris.
It runs: ‘Hi Naomi. Jeffrey and I are in Paris with Woody Allen and wondered if you are in town if you would like to have dinner with us all tomorrow night? Best!’
It has been previously reported that Campbell was on Epstein’s plane manifests and that her phone number was in his ‘black book’ but the material in the files appears to show contact from 2003 to 2016 and comprises 25 pages of files.
Many of them are diary notes which run ‘TBD Naomi Campbell’ or simple memos from Epstein’s PA to note that she has called for him or is returning his call.
‘Naomi Campbell said she was having a facial, will call back’ says one in 2010.
In 2016 there is a flurry of contact as Campbell apparently sought to get a lift on Epstein’s private plane.
‘Naomi is following up on using the plane…. she said she spoke to you about this and hopes you can call her soon… she needs to know’ writes Epstein’s PA.
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In 2016, Campbell apparently sought to get a lift on Epstein’s private plane (pictured)
A follow-up email runs: ‘Naomi has called back twice now saying she doesn’t have any back up plan as she really thought from you this would work. Says she has booked the hotel and car and driver and mentioned something about [name redacted] mom. She is wondering if the plane cant take you to where you are going then go back and take her to where she needs to be.’
A few days later the PA gets in touch with Naomi saying: ‘I hope all worked out the other day. Jeffrey wanted me to let you know he will be in New York tomorrow Wed Jan 27th and Thu Jan 28th… might you be around?’
Campbell has previously described Epstein’s behaviour as ‘indefensible’.
She has said: ‘When I heard what he had done, it sickened me to my stomach…. I stand with the victims.’
Her team was approached for comment today.
Last year, a picture emerged which showed Liz Hurley with Ghislaine Maxwell at a birthday party for Robert Hanson in New York in 1996. Fellow partygoer Sean Borg says that both Epstein and Naomi Campbell were there that night.
Meanwhile, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is also in the Epstein files. A picture showing Mick Jagger sitting next to Epstein in a restaurant was published last week when the documents dropped.
Mick Jagger pictured between Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein in a restaurant
Mick Jagger and Ghislaine Maxwell at a dinner
However, there is more.
In an email from 2010 the message is passed: ‘Mick Jagger’s assistant rang saying Mick rec’d my message and would love to come to your dinner party but is in France at the moment. She said he will be in NY in the New Year and would love to connect then.’
Another email from Boris Nikolic, once an aide to Bill Gates, appears to arrange a different dinner date with Jagger.
Nikolic writes: ‘I can find out if Mick Jagger [Former US President Bill] Clinton [former US solicitor general] Ken Starr [theatre director] Julie Taymor are in town? I will have no trouble getting anyone you want but I think it best after the three of us noodle for a bit.’
Again it was previously reported that Jagger was in Epstein’s contacts book.
There is also a receipt from the delivery service FedEx which shows that Ghislaine Maxwell had something shipped to Mick Jagger in the UK on Epstein’s account in December 2003.
Meanwhile, emails suggest that British socialite Annabelle Neilson was among the women who procured ‘girls’ for Epstein.
Annabelle Neilson, who died of a heart attack in 2018 at the age of 49, emailed the paedophile financier on many occasions calling him ‘babe,’ ‘honey’ and ‘darling’.
Their correspondence dates from between 2010 and 2012, during which time Neilson offered to set Epstein up with a number of women.
On September 15, 2010, Epstein asked for Ghislaine Maxwell – currently in prison for child sex trafficking on behalf of Epstein – to ‘reach out to Annabelle Nielson’.
Two days later, an individual who signed off as Annabelle, wrote to Epstein: ‘So I am putting a little group of girls together. Hopefully one of them will have all the right qualities you desire. Wish I was 20 years younger and could speak French!!!
‘I have to say that a few of my girls, who would be perfect for the job but are unfortunately past their sell-by date, would of [sic] all dropped their husband and almost children for the job when I asked them.’
She added: ‘You know I’ve just had a spark of genius while writing this, I think I may have the right girl.’
In later correspondence, dated November 2012, Neilson was asked by the paedophile whether she had ‘any cute friends’ in Paris, to which she responds: ‘Non in Paris. Let me know if you come over. How about [woman’s name]?’
Epstein simply told her that ‘shes eduardos,’ to which Neilson responded: ‘Oh yes, so she is. If I think of anyone suitable?will let you know. X.’
In another email chain from October 2010, an individual signing of as Annabelle again wrote to him, saying: ‘Hi Jefrey How are you and all the girls?! I hope you got the numbers I left you for the Brazilian and the Italian presenter. I’m back in my lovely grey old rainy london.’
In the same email, she added: ‘My love I hope you are still having a wonderful time without me, probably the new arrivals would of distracted you from the huge void that I left?’
Neilson, who starred on Bravo TV’s reality show Ladies Of London, had become a fixture on London’s jet-setting ‘Primrose Hill’ social set in the early 1990s.
The US Justice Dept has cautioned that the release of the Epstein file documents, collected by the FBI, ‘may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos’ and does not imply wrongdoing of any kind.
