Ms. Campbell hit her driver as he drove through Midtown about 3 p.m. Tuesday and then ran away after the driver pulled over, according to the account the police gave soon afterward. The driver had a tiny bruise under his eye from hitting the steering wheel after he struck him, the police said.
The supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has once pleaded guilty to assault charges in the last three years, has been accused of letting her temper get the best of her one time again.
“There shouldn’t be a rush to judgment,” said Jeff Raymond, a spokesman for Ms. Campbell, adding, “There is more to the story than meets the eye.”
Investigators said they were looking to query the temperamental model about the episode, which happened at the intersection of Second Avenue and 58th Street. But by Tuesday evening, the magnitude of the incident had been downgraded: the police said they were no longer interested in speaking with Ms. Campbell and thought about the matter closed. A document was taken soon after the episode, but no charges were filed.
The police account was reminiscent of legal scrapes involving Ms. Campbell in New York and elsewhere.
After the episode, the driver approached a traffic agent, who then called the police, they said.
In 2008, he pleaded guilty in England to assaulting three police officers at Heathrow Airport in London. He was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and fined $4,600.
In 2007, he pleaded guilty in New York to reckless assault for hitting her servant in the head with a cell phone the year before. He was sentenced to three days of community service and anger-management classes.
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