Vladimir Doronin and Luo Zilin on holiday in Ibiza (Splash News)
Naomi Campbell is still fuming months after her breakup with Russian mogul boyfriend Vladimir Doronin — and she’s now apparently trying to get his new girlfriend, Luo Zilin, fired by her Chinese modeling agent.
Luo — who as an aspiring model was mentored by Campbell on her reality show “The Face” and was even on “Team Naomi” — was seen frolicking on Vlad’s yacht and canoodling at his villa in Ibiza, and was promptly fired by her management firm in Europe for alleged “unprofessional conduct” and an “unacceptable work ethic.”
Now a source tells us, “Naomi has been calling colleagues in the industry to try and stop Luo’s career. She is trying to take this woman out for no reason other than dating her ex-boyfriend.
“Luo was fired by her management firm, and her Chinese agent has been asked to drop her. Naomi is trying to wreck her career. She has a lot of power in the modeling world,” our source said.
Page Six exclusively revealed Naomi, 42, and Vlad, 50, broke up earlier this year. We hear they split in January and finalized the break in March.
The source explained, “They broke up because there were too many ups and downs, and you can only deal with that for so long. Vlad wishes Naomi well. He just wants to move on with his life, but she won’t let him.”
The source said Vlad was surprised to see paparazzi shots of himself with Luo at his secluded villa in Ibiza, adding, “Only a few people know the location of that villa. It’s hard to find, and he suspects she told the paparazzi.”
But a source close to the British beauty, whose career is back on top thanks to the success of “The Face” in the US, said, “She is totally focused on ‘The Face.’ She’s in London working around the clock on the British version of the show. This isn’t easy for Naomi. This relationship seems almost designed to hurt her. She is trying hard to keep a brave face and not to think about it.
“Naomi isn’t trying to destroy Luo’s career, Luo’s agents wanted to get rid of her,” the source continued. “And there’s no way Naomi would have known they were in Ibiza.”
Neal Hamil, president of MIX Model Management NYC, ended Luo’s contract last week.
He told Page Six in an e-mail, “I would just like to clarify that the decision concerning not to continue representing ZiLin was made on Memorial Day when she phoned me to say she was boarding a flight to China.”
“I informed her that doing so was in direct conflict with what [we] had discussed for her in further developing her career,” Hamil continued. “I told her then that we would no longer represent her and I also informed her manager in China, whom I have great respect for, of our decision to terminate our professional relationship with her client.”
He concluded, “I had absolutely no knowledge of her plans other than she was returning to China. It is disappointing that it did not work out but talent and manager must be equally committed and working in tandem. We wish her the best in future pursuits but this was a professional, rather than a [personal] decision.”