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Did Campbell know who gave her diamonds?

Actress Mia Farrow, pictured as she arrived for a movie premiere in New York Feb. 19, 2010. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh)
Actress Mia Farrow, pictured as she arrived for a movie premiere in New York Feb. 19, 2010. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh) | License Photo

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Mia Farrow testified Monday supermodel Naomi Campbell told her she had received diamonds from former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

Testifying at Taylor's war crimes trial in the Netherlands, Farrow said Campbell had told her Taylor had given her a diamond, contradicting Campbell's testimony last week that she received diamonds but didn't know who they came from, The New York Times reported.

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Farrow told the court Campbell had said the day after a charity dinner hosted by former South Africa President Nelson Mandela at his presidential palace 13 years ago that Taylor, a diamond trader, had sent her a "huge diamond" and she planned to donate it to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

Campbell had testified Thursday two men had brought her several rough diamonds after she met Taylor at the dinner but she did not know who they were.

Campbell's former agent, Carole White, also contradicted the supermodel , saying Campbell and Taylor seemed to be flirting during the dinner and that Campbell confided, "He's going to give me some diamonds."

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White testified Taylor and his aides discussed how to bring the diamonds from Johannesburg, several hours away.

Prosecutors at Taylor's war crimes trial at The Hague, Netherlands, said they hope to prove he lied under oath when he testified he never had any "conflict diamonds" or traded them for weapons to support rebels in Sierra Leone during the country's bloody civil war.

Conflict diamonds were said to have helped pay for wars in Sierra Leone and other countries.

Farrow has testified she traveled by train in September 1997 with other guests at the charity event, including Mandela, Campbell and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but couldn't recall other passengers, The Guardian reported.

Taylor's defense team argued that if Farrow cannot remember some points from 13 years ago, then perhaps her evidence is faulty.

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