Socialist leader Chávez went with Oliver Stone to the Venice International Film Festival in 2009. Stone had interviewed Chávez for a documentary. Some years later, the American director would also do interviews with Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, some journalists suspected that supermodel Naomi Campbell might have had a thing for the Venezuelan autocrat. She had interviewed him for GQ in 2008, and media like ABC and El País speculated that there was more going on between them.
