A gothic hip-hop artist known as “The Black Madam” is testifying this week in a Philadelphia court as part of her trial for the murder of a 20-year-old British break-dancer who died after a botched amateur silicone buttock injection operation in a hotel room in 2011.
Padge-Victoria Windslowe, 45, called herself the “Michelangelo of buttock injections”, and told the court that she had performed the operation “thousands” of times, including at so-called “pumping parties”.
Windslowe learned how to do the procedure from a “Dr Chimcoke” in Thailand, with whom she owned a medical tourism company called Secrets of the Orient. She also ran an escort agency, and a bail service for adult entertainers called The Risque Group, according to the Associated Press.
Claudia Aderotimi, a break-dancer from London, flew to Philadelphia for the buttock-implant procedure, which involved being injected with industrial-grade silicone and Krazy Glue, the court heard. Police said that Windslowe fled as soon as Aderotimi began struggling to breathe.
The coroner testified that the silicone had fatally spread to Aderotimi’s lungs.
According to her testimony, Windslowe was informed of Aderotimi’s death by an intermediary with the words “RIP, baby”.
In a bizarre coincidence, a similar trial is currently taking place in Florida, where another amateur buttock-injector, Ron Oneal Morris – reportedly known as the “Toxic Tush” – is facing trial for manslaughter and practising medicine without a licence, among other charges.
One of Morris’s patients, 31-year-old Shatarka Nuby, died from acute respiratory failure caused by “massive systemic silicone migration” after a similar botched amateur buttock injection, CBS Miami reported in January.
Other materials Morris injected into clients reportedly included superglue, liquid rubber designed for repairing flat tyres, and cement.
The parallels between the two cases are striking. Both Windslowe and Morris are transgender, and both used their procedures on themselves. Both are also charged with practising medicine without a licence.
If convicted, Morris faces up to 100 years in prison; Windslowe, who is charged with third-degree murder faces between 20 and 40 years.
