Usually, everything Naomi Campbell touches turns up roses or with a black eye.
But a Miami Beach perfume outfit claims the supermodel has stiffed them for nearly a year on payments she owes from the profits of her three fragrances.
Moodform Mission, which has offices in London and South Beach, filed a lawsuit late Monday claiming that Campbell signed a new fragrance-licensing agreement last year with a rival company despite being under contract since 1998.
The firm worked for years — even designing the perfume bottles — to line up a 1998 fragrance deal for Campbell with a German company that later became part of Procter & Gamble Co., said Moodform Mission lawyer Daniel R. Bright.
Campbell responded to the allegations in a statement released by one of her assistance she has not punched or thrown a phone at.
"She is confident that the judge and the jury in this case will fully vindicate her," the statement said.
It's probably going to take more than a few spritzes of Cat Deluxe and Seductive Elixir to make this situation disappear.
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Campbell, 39, is no stranger to legal disputes, but most of them involve her attacking some unsuspecting maid or personal assistance.
She pleaded guilty in a case at London's Heathrow Airport case in June 2008 after prosecutors said she cursed, kicked and spat at police in a rage over a missing piece of luggage; she was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
She also did a week of community service sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets in a Manhattan garbage-truck garage in 2007 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault for hurling a cell phone at her maid because of a vanished pair of jeans. In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant who said the model whacked her on the head with a phone.
A few of Campbell's former aides and maids have sued her, accusing her of violent outbursts; some cases have been settled on undisclosed terms.
Campbell - and by this we mean her super-rich boyfriend - recently purchased Shaq's Star Island mansion, presumably to live a secluded life away from the hustle and bustle of courtrooms.
The breach-of-contract lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, seeks unspecified damages. According to the lawsuit, the contract stipulated that New York would be the venue for any disputes.
