Naomi Campbell has been ordered to stand trial for an alleged attack on an Italian photographer, which put him in hospital.

The supermodel allegedly flew at paparazzo Gaetano Di Giovanni battering him and scratching him, after he took pictures of her on holiday with her billionaire ex-boyfriend.

Mr Di Giovanni claimed his face was scratched and bruised after Miss Campbell, allegedly slapped him and hit him with her handbag.

The supermodel’s ‘nails had damaged his left eye’, he told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

‘For a few seconds I could not see a thing. I could hear that her bodyguards and her boyfriend were trying to drag her away.’

Miss Campbell denies the allegations and in a statement today her spokesman said: ‘Three years ago Ms Campbell was the victim of paparazzi harassment in Italy.

The alleged attack took place on the island of Lipari off the coast of Sicily in July 2009.

Di Giovanni claims it took three days to recover from an eye injury, which he said was certified by medical experts at a local emergency room.