In this Aug. 5, 2010, file photo made from television, Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands. Jeremy Ractliffe, former head of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, announced Wednesday. Aug. 18, 2010, that he was stepping down from the charity's board after he acknowledged that he secretly possessed purported "blood diamonds" for more than a decade. His possession of the diamonds came to light earlier this month when Ms. Campbell testified she gave them to Mr. Ractliffe in 1997, after receiving them from three men who came to her hotel room after she attended a 1997 Children's Fund charity event also attended by then-Liberian President Charles Taylor. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone via APTN, File)
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