Gabriella Engels claimed that she was visiting the couple’s sons, Robert Jr, 25, and Chatunga Bellarmine, 21, at a hotel in Sandton on Sunday night when Mrs Mugabe burst into the room and assaulted her and two of her friends with the plug of an extension cord.

“We were chilling in a hotel room,” Ms Engels said, “She came in and started hitting us. The front of my forehead is busted open. I make my money based on my looks.”

The model yesterday tweeted a photograph of a gash on her forehead and…