American actress Mia Farrow says she heard British supermodel Naomi Campbell tell people she had received a ""huge diamond"" from former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

Farrow told Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague Monday that she remembered the supermodel as being ""quite excited"" about the diamond when she came to breakfast the morning after a 1997 charity dinner in South Africa.
Campbell's former agent, Carole White, also testified Monday, saying Mr. Taylor had promised during the charity dinner to give the model diamonds.
The testimony of the two women contradicts the supermodel's statements at the court. Campbell testified last week that she received ""dirty-looking stones"" in the middle of the night, but did not know they were diamonds or who had sent them.
The prosecution alleges the stones given to the British model after the dinner were part of the ""blood diamond"" trade. Mr. Taylor denies the accusation.
Diamonds are central to the prosecution's case. The prosecution says Mr. Taylor supplied weapons to rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for diamonds.
The charity dinner was hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela to benefit his children's fund. Campbell told the court she gave the diamonds to the then-director of the fund, Jeremy Ratcliffe, as a possible donation.
Ratcliffe said he had kept the stones since Campbell gave them to him in 1997, because he did not want to involve the fund in anything illegal. He handed over the diamonds to South African police after Campbell named him in her testimony.
(Source: VOA News/ AFP/ AP)
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