Naomi's perp walk replaces cat walk?

By Stone Martindale Nov 15, 2006, 21:49 GMT

Pugnacious model Naomi Campbell is hoping for leniency regarding the lastest round with ex employee Ana Scolavino, one of the ever-increasing legions of "formerly employed" accusing Campbell of assault, battery and bitchery.

On Wednesday Campbell stood quietly  in Manhattan Criminal Court for a five-minute hearing in which attorneys updated Judge Evelyn Laporte on the status of her long-gestating plea deal in the Scolavino matter.

Campbell is accused of winging her phone at Scolavino last March over a pair of missing jeans.

"We're still in the process of working out a possible disposition," said Assistant District Attorney Shanda Strain, who asked for and got an extended restraining order against Campbell for Scolavino.

Campbell's lawyer, David Breitbart, is trying to win his client a community service gig.

Breitbart told the judge he's pushing for a hospital or similarly enclosed location to "spare his model client the sort of antagonistic or humiliating experience endured by Boy George earlier this year."

Breitbart argued Campbell has already done much charity work tied into hospitals.

"That's why it's so upsetting that someone who has devoted so much time to charity is being despotized," Breitbart said.

On Tuesday, another ex employee of Campbells, Ms. Gibson added to the existing litany of allegations against her former boss by filing a lawsuit depicting the 36-year-old professional poser as a "violent super-bigot" who harassed Gibson over her Romanian ethnicity.

Gibson's main grievances stem from an incident in which she says she was looking in Campbell's closet for another pair of missing jeans, only to be accused of stealing the denim and then kicked in the head by the model.

Breitbart denies the allegations.

Campbell is due back in court for sentencing Jan. 16, for Scolavino's cell phone assault charges.  She will either accept a plea deal or face being charged with second-degree assault. If convicted, she could face up to seven years in prison.