"Madam convicted of murder in fatal buttocks injection" Associated Press March 10, 2015
PHILADELPHIA — A former madam who bragged of doing black-market ‘‘body sculpting’’ on thousands of women was convicted Monday of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped hours after silicone injected into her buttocks moved to her lungs.
Padge-Victoria Windslowe’s colorful testimony during her Philadelphia trial included claims that she was ‘‘the Michelangelo of buttocks injections’’ and that model Amber Rose was ‘‘a walking billboard’’ for her work.
Yet Windslowe, 45, had no medical training, other than tips she said she picked up from overseas doctors who performed her sex-change operation and a physician-client of her escort service who became her lover.
‘‘I was the best, and I don’t mean that to be cocky,’’ Windslowe testified, explaining why celebrities would have sought her out over a licensed plastic surgeon.
The evidence showed that Windslowe traveled to hotel rooms and ‘‘pumping parties’’ with her tools of the trade stuffed into a shiny pink purse: a water bottle filled with silicone, a red plastic cup, needles and syringes, and Krazy Glue to close the injection sites.
Authorities argued that she fled in 2011 after a botched injection killed Claudia Aderotimi, 20, a London break-dancer and college student.
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