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Padge Victoria Windslowe
Padge Windslowe, 42, a Philadelphia woman who calls herself the "Black Madam," has been charged with third-degree murder in the death of Claudia Aderotimi, who died days after getting silicone injections in her buttocks.
Police say Aderotimi, 20, flew from London to Philadelphia with three friends to get the injections. She received the injections in Feb. 7, 2011, at a Hampton Inn in Southwest Philadelphia, according to police. Aderotimi complained of chest pain and difficulty breathing following the procedure and died a few days later at a Delaware County Hospital.
One of Aderotimi's friends, Theresa Gyamfi, said she had received a similar injection from the same woman in November 2010.
Gyamfi identified Padge Windslowe as the woman who injected both of them.
Windslowe is facing charges of aggravated assault and deceptive practices in another case, involving an exotic dancer who says she suffered severe respiratory problems after receiving injections.
Windslowe was free for more than a year between Aderotimi's death and her February 2012 arrest at what police called a "pumping party" at a Philadelphia home. That arrest involved assault and related charges in a separate incident that authorities said left a client with severe lung problems from silicone that entered her bloodstream.
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The woman whose injuries led to Windslowe's initial arrest said she spent two weeks in the hospital with severe respiratory problems, The Associated Press reported. A doctor who testified at a hearing in May said silicone particles had migrated to the woman's lungs.
Windslowe also bills herself as a musical artist who uses "Black Madam" as a stage name, the AP said.
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Illegal injections using such substances as liquid silicone, paraffin and petroleum jelly have been used to enlarge women's breasts, hips and buttocks in other cases. Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA don't keep data on injuries or deaths caused by illicit cosmetic injections, cases have been reported across the country and beyond.
In other high-profile cases:
- Solange Magnano, a model and former Miss Argentina, died in Buenos Aires in 2009 from complications after having cosmetic injections in her buttocks.
- Last Nov. 18, a Miami Gardens, Fla., transgender woman, Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested on charges of practicing medicine without a license after police said she injected a patient's rear with a substance consisting of cement, "Fix a Flat," mineral oil and super glue in an illegal cosmetic surgery procedure. She pleaded not guilty.
- On July 12, Kimberly Smedley, 46, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced in a Baltimore federal court to three years in prison for injecting commercial silicone into customers' buttocks for nearly nine years in hotel rooms in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere. She made at least $1.3 million from her nationwide practice, federal prosecutors said. She was convicted on a charge of introducing and delivering into interstate commerce an adulterated and misbranded device. Prosecutors said she used silicone stored in an unlabeled water jug, medical syringes and super glue with cotton balls to keep the silicone from leaking out.
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Has anyone seen '30 Days of Night'?
What a remarkable swing of the pop-culture pendulum that now has some American women actually trying to INCREASE the size of their
as....um, their posteriors! "Who woulda thunk it"?I'm just sayin' ....
No I said "caulk" in your butt... sheesh what were you thinkin.
Whatever happened to the old girl's P.E. chant:
We must, we must, we must develop our bust.
For fear, for fear it will settle to our rear.
Q. "Are you getting a little behind in your work?"
A. "Nope. A big one."
It amazes me just how stupid people can be when they are trying to be "trendy". Letting someone, with no medical training beyond how to put on a bandaid, inject some unknown foreign goo into your butt to make it huge? Obviously a sizable reduction in brainpower is a prerequisite to something like this happening
I agree. She flew from England, met someone in a hotel to give her butt shots....and she dies. She must have been missing her brain. Some people cause their own demise.
I don't understand. The amount she paid in travel would more than pay to have the procedure done correctly by a real doctor!
Are women these days that vain and self centered that they would consent do something like that. Or are they just plain stupid and if that is the case they deserve everything they get.
IOMO
Plain stupid...I saw the transgender case on TV and if you saw the hips and ass on that person, you would NEVER had gotten near a table, much less up on it. People, if it doesn't look surgical, or smell surgical, turn around, RUN, RUN, RUN!!!
Vanity and stupidity is a dangerous combination. Alot of women suffer from both.
How can you write this article and leave out that the "woman" who did the injecting is really a man? Political correctness has truly degenerated into pure farce.
If that is the case ,these people need to turn in their 'reporters licenses'
It does say there was another case with a transgeder, but this one I don't believe is.
I'm not going to say it's right. In fact it's incredibly wrong. That being said, girls are very image conscious. This is especially true of fulltime transgendered girls. With the cost of just breast implants alone costing about $6,000 and more, adding in the cost for additional expense for hip and butt implants, quickly puts it out of reach. So then, the thought of quick, cheap, silicone injections to get that "sexy" figure seems like a great trade-off. After all, their thinking is that not ever girl that gets the injections dies or has complications. What they aren't thinking about or considering, is the long range health impact. The silicone, in time migrates to different parts of the body. It can become rock hard. It can sag. In addition, since it was injected, it's not encapsulated. It can't be removed. If surgery is performed, say a hip replacement, the silicone oozes out. Many doctors will refuse to operate given these circumstances.
So girls, think once, twice, three times about doing it, and DON'T! Your health isn't worth it. Wait, save, and do it the right way. Even if it takes longer.
What are you-giving transgender tips?- "you there-it things,kill yourself"
Maybe you neeed to kill yourself pained1
No.why-B'cause
Ladies, ladies, ladies... if you have a flat booty, the best way to get it more plumped is by having "doggystyle" sex or "backshots". No injections! I'm available...
Always some pervert around every corner!
I'm all for a bargain but come on! When it comes to your health you don't skimp ... always go for the professional. Fortunately, I'm blessed with a nice booty but even if I wasn't, I wouldn't hire a non-medical profession to perform a medical procedure on me.
Not sure about the "doggystyle sex" for a bigger booty. Try squats and lunges. Better yet, try being happy with whatever you've been blessed with.
Karyn - I can't believe you referenced that off the wall statement made by a pervert. He is just as messed up as the fools giving and receiving the injections!!