In the recent Naomi Campbell blood diamond trial news,  the supermodel's request to postpone her day in court has been postopned.

With a call to testify and a pending court date, supermodel Naomi Campbell may have felt like a non conflict-free diamond in the rough in a bubbling war crimes trial that featured former Liberian president Charles Taylor and the inclusion of illegal blood diamonds. 

She wanted no part of it and continued efforts to avoid having to testify in court even as Rosemary's Baby actress Mia Farrow, who attended the same party as Campbell when she allegedly received her first blood from Taylor, told authorities she was receiving rough diamonds from Taylor. 

Even when she was ordered by law to do so, the stunning black beauty asked to postpone her testimony from July 29 to August 5.

Charles Taylor is accused of using diamonds to buy weapons and help finance the war in Sierra Leone.  He reportedly smuggled the diamonds in mayonnaise jars. 

Taylor denies all charges.

Naomi Campbell is not on trial herself but it is said she could provide material evidence against Taylor, who says he never had rough diamonds in his possession. In January 2010, prosecutors said that Taylor gave Campbell a large rough diamond at a dinner hosted by then-South African president Nelson Mandela. 

Publications like the Guardian UK have since revealed pictures from the party where Taylor is clearly portrayed as the man in charge though its Mandela's event.  While the picture doesn't provide evidence of anything more than a party

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for Mandela being held that night, Wood Allen's former girlfriend Farrow is willing to testify that Campbell was given a diamond and was considering to donate it to one of Mandela's children's charities. 

Taylor is charged on 11 accounts including instigation of murder, rape, mutilation, sexual slavery, conscription of child soldiers and more during the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone where at least 250,000 people were killed.

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