TMZ: Bella Hadid retains lawyers after Adidas drops her from campaign for 1972 Munich Olympics retro sneaker

Palestinian-American supermodel and activist Bella Hadid has retained lawyers to examine her options after Adidas dropped her from an advertising campaign for retro sneakers referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 Israeli athletes were killed in an attack by a Palestinian terror group, celebrity gossip website TMZ reports.

Unnamed sources tell TMZ that Hadid is looking to take action for what the site calls Adidas’s “lack of public accountability.”

The website says that Hadid is still under contract with Adidas, and that she is upset that the shoemaker would run a campaign associated with the violence at the 1972 games.

“Sounds like Bella’s telling people in her orbit she didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she signed on… and, she’s holding Adidas responsible for that,” TMZ says.

The German sportswear giant recently relaunched the SL72, a shoe first showcased by athletes at the 1972 Olympics, as part of a series reviving old classic sneakers.

Eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer were killed at the 1972 Munich Games after terrorists from the Palestinian Black September group broke into the Olympic village and took them hostage.

Hadid, who was born in the United States but has Palestinian roots through her father, has been vocal about her support for Palestinian rights since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 triggered the war in Gaza. She has accused Israel of genocide in Gaza — an allegation rejected as unfounded by Israel — and been accused by Israel and US Jewish groups of antisemitism.