Caught on Camera: Naomi Campbell Grabs Camera Outside Havana Hotel

Supermodel Naomi Campbell was caught on camera lunging at an NBC News cameraman as she left her hotel in Cuba.

The catwalk queen refused to speak to waiting reporters outside the Hotel Nacional in Havana on Thursday. When Campbell spotted the cameraman, she charged towards him, grabbed his camera and demanded he stop.

“Why are you filming me,” Campbell said. “Stop filming me.”

Campbell has been accused of assault several times in the past. In 2006 she was charged with reckless assault and later sentenced to community service and anger management for striking her maid on the head with a cellphone.

In another incident, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant during the production of a movie in 1998.

The London-born model reached out to NBC News and apologized for grabbing the camera in Thursday's incident, NBC News reported.

"I am sorry for what happened. It was all a big misunderstanding. Please forgive me," Campbell said in a telephone interview on Thursday afternoon.

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