Naomi Campbell drew a smile from her Sanitation “bag man” yesterday, and appeared to make amends for turning the burly cop into her flunky.
Then the supermodel left her workday of toilet scrubbing with a new, young – and hot – valet of her very own.
Day 3 of the mannequin’s five-day stint of community service saw Campbell roll into work in her chauffeured SUV, with a bodyguard holding up The Post in front of her face – and she checked out pictures of Sanitation cop Lt. John Fitzgerald carrying her bag a day earlier.
Campbell immediately pulled Fitzgerald aside upon her arrival. About 30 seconds later, Fitzgerald smiled and nodded at the fashion plate, who walked into work carrying her own two bags.
Once inside, Campbell spent her day scrubbing lockers and toilets, a Sanitation official said.
Campbell ordered out for lunch and dined with a 20-something blond man, who was also doing a community-service stint.
The giggling pair emerged from the Sanitation depot at Pier 36 and happily boarded Campbell’s Cadillac Escalade. The car then sped off.
A Sanitation spokesman confirmed that Campbell and her new, model-handsome pal were hitting it off, but declined to say if it was a love connection.
The fellow community-service worker told The Post he enjoyed Campbell’s company: “She’s cool. That’s all I’ll say. She’s cool.”
While the Sanitation cop won’t face any disciplinary action for his rule-breaking chivalry, that didn’t stop colleagues from giving him a tough time yesterday.
“He’s getting ribbed, but he’s all right,” said one of New York’s Strongest.
Fitzgerald’s colleagues enjoyed a good chuckle at the cop’s expense.
“I know, [he’s the] bag man. Everybody is laughing,” said another co-worker, who couldn’t control his own chuckling.
“He signed in this morning and walked right to his post.”
Campbell, paying her debt to society for a cellphone-tossing assault on her maid, faces another day today of toilet scrubbing.
“It’s not easy work,” said Sanitation Deputy Chief Albert Durrell.
Campbell has turned this community service into her own personal catwalk, strutting before cameras and hatching plans to sell her work clothes for charity.
Her charitable profiteering comes close to violating state law against felons making profits from their crimes. Campbell pleaded down to a misdemeanor.
“Clearly this is income generated from the commission of a crime,” said New York criminal-defense lawyer Paul Callan. “While it may not have violated the letter of ‘Son of Sam [laws against criminal profiteering],’ it certainly violated the spirit of it.”
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano and David K. Li