Naomi Campbell banned from charity role after investigation found funds were spent on hotels, spas, cigarettes

Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a foundation trustee successful England and Wales for 5 years aft an probe into her charitable enactment uncovered grounds of fiscal misconduct.

On Thursday, the Charity Commission, which registers and regulates charities successful England and Wales, released a study pursuing a three-year enquiry into the 54-year-old British supermodel's foundation Fashion For Relief, which determined that the enactment was "poorly governed and had inadequate fiscal management."

The Charity Commission reported that it recovered "multiple instances of misconduct and / oregon mismanagement" astatine Fashion For Relief and discovered lone 8.5% of its wide spending went toward charitable grants and causes from April 2016 to July 2022.

In addition, the probe identified that immoderate of Fashion For Relief's expenditures were "not reasonable. It revealed that thousands of pounds successful charitable funds were spent connected a luxury edifice enactment for Campbell successful Cannes, France, including spa treatments, country work and cigarettes. 

Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a foundation trustee aft an probe into her nonprofit Fashion for Relief. ( GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

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On Friday, Campbell responded to the Charity Commission's findings, which she said were "deeply flawed" successful a connection to the PA quality agency, via CBS News.

"First of all, I admit that, arsenic the look of Fashion for Relief, I americium yet liable for its conduct," Campbell said. "Unfortunately, I was not progressive successful the day-to-day operations of the organization, and I entrusted the ineligible and operational absorption to others."

The Vogue screen prima added that she has "instructed caller advisers to undertake a elaborate probe of what transpired."

Additionally, Campbell told the Associated Press that "everything I bash and each penny I ever raised goes to charity."

The Charity Commission recovered that charitable funds were spent connected a luxury edifice enactment for Campbell including country service, spa treatments and cigarettes. (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

The Charity Commission besides recovered that chap Fashion for Relief trustee Bianka Hellmich received astir 290,000 pounds ($385,000) of unauthorized funds for consultancy services, which was successful breach of the charity’s constitution. She has been disqualified arsenic a trustee for 9 years. The different trustee, Veronica Chou, was barred for 4 years.

"Every penny I ever raised goes to charity."

Fashion for Relief, which was founded successful 2005 successful the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina successful New Orleans, was dissolved and removed from the registry of charities successful March. 

On its website, which is inactive active, the charity said that it presented manner initiatives and projects successful New York, London, Cannes, Moscow, Mumbai and Dar es Salaam, raising much than $15 cardinal for bully causes astir the world.

Campbell said the findings were "deeply flawed." (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

The foundation had been acceptable up with the purpose of uniting the manner manufacture to relieve poorness and beforehand wellness and education, by making grants to different organizations and giving resources towards planetary disasters.

The committee said that astir 344,000 pounds ($460,000) has been recovered and that a further 98,000 pounds of charitable funds person been protected. These funds were utilized to marque donations to 2 different charities and settee outstanding liabilities.  

The Associated Press contributed to this report.