Supermodel Naomi Campbell on Monday started a five-day sentence of community service at a New York sanitation garage for assaulting her maid with a mobile phone.(File Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

    BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Supermodel Naomi Campbell on Monday started a five-day sentence of community service at a New York sanitation garage for assaulting her maid with a mobile phone.

    Campbell, 36, showed up for work wearing black stillettos, but had dark work boots slung over her shoulder. Her job consists of pushing a broom or mop in the Manhattan District 3 Garage at Pier 36 on the Hudson River as part of her guilty plea for misdemeanor assault.

    Campbell was met by a garage official who escorted her through the building's dirty, steel double doors. She didn't acknowledge the crowd of assembled media.

    "Miss Campbell arrived on time to work. She came ready to work," Albert Durrell, deputy chief of the Department of Sanitation, told reporters at a briefing outside the facility.

    The garage is the same sanitation depot where former Culture Club frontman Boy George performed his five-day community service stint in August. He pleaded guilty for falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The responding officers found cocaine instead.

    Unlike George, who performed his duties outdoors in full view of TV cameras, Campbell will work inside the garage. She was issued protective gloves, dust mask and reflective orange vest.

    "We have plenty of work for her to do over the next five days," Durrell said.

    Because of her celebrity status, sanitation police officers will be stationed at each entrance of the facility, Durrell said.

    Campbell, who has a reputation for angry outbursts, pleaded guilty in January for hitting Ana Scolavino in the back of the head with the phone last March. Scolavino was treated for a head injury.

    In exchange for her guilty plea, Campbell was ordered to pay Scolavino's medical expenses of 363 U.S. dollars, do five days of community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.

    (Agencies)

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