Supermodel Campbell sued by Russian billionaire ex-boyfriend
NAOMI CAMPBELL is being sued for millions of dollars by her Russian billionaire former boyfriend.
In the case, first reported by US celebrity news website TMZ, Vladislav Doronin, 57, claimed in court documents that the supermodel was refusing to pay back loans and return personal property.
Mr Doronin claimed Ms Campbell had not returned property he valued at $3million (£2.3million).
The pair were reportedly in a relationship from 2008 to 2013. The case was filed in the supreme court of the state of New York.
In a two-page “summons of notice”, lawyers for Mr Doronin said he was seeking “damages relating to personal property” and “arising from [the] defendant’s wrongful refusal to repay loans made by plaintiff to defendant”. He also accused his former girlfriend of a “refusal to return certain personal property belonging to plaintiff ”.
Mr Doronin’s lawyers said that he was seeking monetary damages or an order of seizure for “the return of personal property valued in excess of $3million”.
The document said: “Upon your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief sought, including for compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial”. Representatives for Ms Campbell had not immediately responded, TMZ said.
Mr Doronin is a former commodities trader turned property tycoon.
In 1993, he launched the Capital Group, which became one of Russia’s most successful property development companies.
He went on to control the Aman hotel group, linking the super-rich to expensive properties worldwide.
Last year, Mr Doronin, who has apartments all over the world, told The
Daily Telegraph: “My home is on a plane. I spent 798 hours on a plane last year. Five times around the world.”
The New York court filing was dated Sept 4.
Ms Campbell’s London-based lawyers and New York-based publicists did not immediately return requests for comment.