'Michelangelo of buttocks injections' convicted of murder

A former madam who bragged of doing black-market “body sculpting” on thousands of women was convicted of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly half a gallon of silicone was injected into her buttocks. Authorities argued that she fled in 2011 after a botched injection killed Claudia Aderotimi, a 20-year-old London break-dancer and college student. 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 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 think it was a hoax, like her whole life has been a hoax.

Assistant District Attorney Carlos Vega

Windslowe, 45, name-dropped the likes of rappers Nicki Minaj and Kanye West and tennis star Serena Williams during her testimony and claimed to have been baptized “Genevieve” after her sex change by the late Roman Catholic Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. Rose’s representatives have not responded to messages seeking comment about the claim that she was a client. Windslowe described herself as a serial entrepreneur who once ran a transgender escort service and a Gothic hip-hop performer who called herself the Black Madam.

I was the best, and I don’t mean that to be cocky.

Former madam Padge-Victoria Windslowe

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