Naomi To Raise Money For Children Of Fiance's Native Country

Naomi To Raise Money For Children Of Fiance’s Native Country

Naomi Campbell’s love for Russia has inspired the British supermodel to raise money for the country’s underprivileged children, she said on Monday.

A smiling Campbell, 39, told Reuters in an interview in the Russian capital,

“I’m living here… everyone has been very nice to me and welcoming and I wanted to give back.”

Spending part of the year in Moscow with her Russian boyfriend and property mogul Vladimir Doronin, the model has become a regular fixture at the city’s fashion shows and elite boutiques, sometimes clad in Russian-designed frocks.

Though she has a history of brushes with the law in the West, she is much-loved by Russia’s champagne-quaffing new rich and is the first major foreign star to live in the country.

In late May Campbell hopes to raise at least $1 million at her fundraiser, called NEON, for two Russian charities which provide education, medicine and training for children.