[News] [PA, USA] "Black Madam" to Go to Trial for Butt Injections

[Stephanie Stevens]

NBC 10 Philadelphia, PA, USA


"Black Madam" to Go to Trial for Butt Injections

Dancer: $1,000 buttocks enhancement damaged lungs

By Maryclaire Dale and Dan Stamm | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Updated 5:32 PM EDT


[VIDEO (2:01): Philadelphia woman Padge Windslowe who calls herself
the "Black Madam" was ordered Wednesday to trial for allegedly
administering illegal buttock injections. An exotic dancer testified
at a preliminary hearing Wednesday that she paid $1,000 for the
injections and suffered lung damage from the procedure. NBC10's
Monique Braxton reports.]

A Philadelphia woman who calls herself the “Black Madam” was ordered
Wednesday to stand trial on allegations she administered illegal
buttock-injections
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, procedures that authorities say caused serious medical problems in
at least one case.

Padge Windslowe, 42, faces charges of aggravated assault and deceptive
practices related to a so-called pumping party in Philadelphia.

An exotic dancer testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday that she
paid $1,000 for the injections on a dining room table. She said she
met Windslowe through fellow dancers. The dancer, identified as Miss
King, said Windslowe had silicon in a water bottle and used Krazy Glue
to close four injection sites.

"The young lady purchased a product allegedly from our client,"
Windslowe's lawyer Douglas Gould said. "I didn't hear anything in
there today that suggested to me that.. this young lady suffered a
serious bodily injury. She's 23 years old and she's back to dancing."

The 23-year-old said she later suffered serious lung damage and was
hospitalized for more than a week with respiratory problems. A doctor
testified that the dancer has silicone particles on her lungs that
can't be removed and can prove fatal.

"She acts as if she's a nurse and tells them that she has a background
in cosmetology," said prosecutor Bridget Kirn after the hearing.
"(King) still has silicone in her lungs."

Police believe Windslowe also injected 20-year-old London tourist
Claudia Aderotimi
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, who died last year. Aderotimi complained of chest pain and
difficulty breathing following the procedure at a hotel near
Philadelphia International Airport. No charges have been filed in her
death as detectives await extensive autopsy test results.

King said on the stand Wednesday that Windslowe told her that her
injection had nothing to do with Aderotimi's death and that the
English woman died from drugs.

Windslowe was being held on $750,000 bail
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