Former supermodel Naomi Campbell has hit out at the UK Charity Commission after the 5-year ban from running a charity.

The UK charity watchdog identified “multiple instances of misconduct” in the running of Fashion for Relief including use of charity money to pay for her to stay in a five-star hotel in the south of France, including spa treatments and room service.

Campbell however called the body’s findings “deeply flawed” and said she had instructed new advisers to investigate what happened at the charity.

“First of all, I recognise that, as the face of Fashion for Relief, I am ultimately responsible for its conduct,” Campbell, 54, said in a press statement issued after the suspension.

“Unfortunately, I was not involved in the day-to-day operations of the organisation, and I entrusted the legal and operational management to others,” she said.

Campbell insisted she had “never been paid a fee for my participation in Fashion for Relief nor billed any personal expenses to the organisation”.

Campbell’s charity, which she set up in 2005, held a string of glitzy, star-studded events to raise funds for causes in London and Cannes, some of which include projects ranging from supporting child refugees, to helping victims of the Ebola crisis and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

She said she is considering all options including requesting an appeal.

The watchdog probe published on Thursday found that between April 2016 and July 2022, only 8.5 percent of Fashion for Relief’s overall expenditure went on grants to charities.

Campbell, 54, has now been disqualified from running a charity for five years. Two other trustees also received bans.

In another development, the UNICEF has called to question why she named herself a UN envoy and said the international organisation made a serious incident report about Fashion for Relief to the U.K. Charity Commission in 2022, noting it received no proceeds from a fashion show and charity auction that Campbell’s charity held at the British Museum and said it was working with the UN agency. UNICEF also asked why Campbell was listed as its “envoy” when she met with former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson, who was then foreign secretary, in 2018.