Naomi Campbell's charity had complaint from Unicef

Naomi Campbell's foundation Fashion for Relief was reported by Unicef to a watchdog, it has emerged, aft it claimed to beryllium moving with the planetary children's charity.

Unicef UK told BBC News it had ne'er been a spouse of Fashion for Relief, and had not received immoderate funds from an lawsuit that was held successful 2019 purportedly to rise wealth for it.

The Charity Commission confirmed it received a "serious incidental report" from Unicef successful 2022.

Last week, the exemplary was banned from being a foundation trustee aft the regulator recovered funds were spent connected luxury hotels and spa treatments.

Neither Campbell nor Fashion for Relief person responded to a petition for remark astir Unicef's complaint.

Fashion for Relief held a catwalk amusement and auction astatine the British Museum successful 2019, which it said would rise wealth for Unicef and the Mayor’s Fund for London.

But successful a statement, Unicef UK said: "We person ne'er held immoderate authoritative concern with Fashion for Relief and we person ne'er received immoderate funds from the 2019 event."

The Guardian, which archetypal reported the news, said determination were besides questions astir wherefore the exemplary was billed arsenic a Unicef "envoy" astatine an authoritative gathering successful 2018 with then-foreign caput Boris Johnson.

Unicef said: "Naomi Campbell has ne'er held an authoritative relation oregon rubric with Unicef oregon Unicef UK and we are successful interaction with the FCDO [Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office] to recognize what happened."

Unicef added that an authoritative ambassadorial relation "comes aft galore years of committedness and enactment to Unicef".

The foundation said it takes fundraising compliance "very seriously", and reported Fashion for Relief to the Charity Commission "as per our statutory requirements".

A Charity Commission spokesperson said Unicef's study "was considered, alongside wider grounds and accusation arsenic portion of our statutory enquiry into Fashion for Relief".

That inquiry, which published its findings past week, focused connected complaints from the Mayor’s Fund for London and the Save the Children Fund, which said they were owed wealth from Fashion for Relief events.

The enquiry recovered Fashion for Relief was not passing connected arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic it was expected to. Instead, funds were spent connected hotels, information and cigarettes for Campbell, and different unauthorised payments to 1 of her chap foundation trustees.

Fashion for Relief has been removed from the registry of charities arsenic a result, and Campbell has been banned from foundation engagement for 5 years.

"I've conscionable recovered retired contiguous astir the findings, and I americium highly concerned," Campbell, 54, told the AP quality bureau connected Thursday.

She added she was not the idiosyncratic "in control" of the charity.

Two different trustees, Bianka Hellmich and Veronica Chou, were banned for 9 years and 4 years respectively.