Model of the moment: Naomi Campbell Statuesque British beauty Naomi Campbell takes her status seriously. The 90's may have been her heyday but she's never really given up the day job and she's more in evidence than ever with her booming journalism, charity work and effervescent personal life. Naomi Campbell was born in 1970 in Streatham, South London. By August 1988, she had been on the cover of Vogue Paris as the publication's first black cover girl and starred in campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Francois Nars, Lee Jeans, Olympus and Versace. She has also starred in pop videos for Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and George Michael. In 1994, she published a novel, Swan, and released an album, Babywoman. She attended an anger management course in Arizona in the autumn of 1999 She appeared in an anti-fur poster campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) in 1997, only to be seen several months later sporting a fur coat on the catwalks in Milan. She has been romantically linked the likes of Mike Tyson, Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Eric Clapton, Adam Clayton, Flavio Briatore and Joaquin Cortés in the past - and was once quoted as having claimed that she "made half of them famous." Although she admitted that London's Daily Mirror was right to say that she had long battled with drug addiction and was attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings, she objected to the intrusive nature of the coverage, claiming that it interfered with her right to privacy. After 2004's high profile court battle - everyday of which Naomi show off her fashion credentials in serious style outside the court building - the judge eventually ruled in her favour and she won what was seen as a significant victory for privacy-seeking celebrities everywhere. In 2007 she completed community service in New York for an assault on her assistant. In 2007 Naomi designed a T-shirt with Burberry and put on a star-studded fashion show during London Fashion Week to raise money for victims of the UK floods. She also interviewed Venezualan President Hugo Chavez for GQ. She continues to be vocal about racism in modelling.