Omi hits another assistant....
FIERY supermodel
Naomi Campbell has allegedly attacked another one of her assistants — beating her with a BlackBerry and slapping her across the face.
An insider tattles to PAGE SIX that Campbell was traveling with a young female assistant in Brazil last week when the catfighting catwalker pounced on her prey during an argument.
"Naomi was slapping her with one hand, and beating her with a BlackBerry with the other," claims our source.
When the sobbing assistant threatened to report the Blackberry beat-down to police, Campbell warned that she would leave her stranded in South America.
"Naomi told her, 'If you go to the police, you're gonna have to pay for your airfare home and I'm gonna whack you with this big hotel bill,' " says our source.
"They were staying at an expensive suite in Rio and the assistant couldn't afford to pay for any of that. She's still traveling with Naomi, but she wants to quit as soon as they come back to New York."
But Campbell's spokesman
Rob Shuter insisted that our story was "absolutely not true." His office later forwarded us this e-mail attributed to the assistant:
"I have been working with Naomi Campbell for several months and traveled extensively with her. Naomi has always treated me with great respect. I can tell you as a fact that this ugly rumor is not true."
Of course, this wouldn't be the first time that Campbell has been accused of mistreating one of her minions.
In August 2004, Campbell's immigrant maid
Millicent Burton went to Lenox Hill Hospital after she and her boss came to blows during a spat over packing a suitcase in Campbell's Park Avenue pad.
At the time, Campbell's lawyer noted that, according to the police report, Burton pushed Campbell first during their argument.
Campbell pleaded guilty in 2000 to beating assistant
Georgina Galanis with a cellphone. Gallanis, who worked as Campbell's assistant for nine days during the filming of the movie "Prisoner of Love," says Campbell bashed her twice in the head with the phone, punched her shoulder twice, grabbed her neck and "violently shook her head" at their Toronto hotel. In 1999, Campbell reportedly spent a month at an anger management clinic amid concerns that her temper was damaging her relationship with ex-boyfriend
Flavio Briatore.
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page six ny post march 30. 2005
