NEWS
July 26, 2012 | By Allison Steele, Inquirer Staff Writer
Authorities on Tuesday charged Philadelphia's "Black Madam" with murder for administering a series of fatal silicone buttock injections to a 20-year-old British tourist at an airport hotel last year. Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, was charged with third-degree murder, conspiracy, reckless endangerment, and other violations in the February 2011 death of Claudia Seye Aderotimi. Windslowe faces up to 44 to 88 years in prison if convicted. She is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 8. The death of Aderotimi, an aspiring dancer from London who traveled to Philadelphia with friends and paid $1,800 for the buttock-enhancement injections, drew international attention and led reporters from the United Kingdom to flock to Philadelphia.
NEWS
July 25, 2012 | By Allison Steele, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Authorities on Tuesday charged Philadelphia's "Black Madam" with murder for administering a series of fatal silicone buttock injections to a 20-year-old British tourist at an airport hotel last year. Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, was charged with third-degree murder, conspiracy, reckless endangerment, and other violations in the February 2011 death of Claudia Seye Aderotimi. Windslowe faces up to 44 to 88 years in prison if convicted. She is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 8. The death of Aderotimi, an aspiring dancer from London who traveled to Philadelphia with friends and paid $1,800 for the buttock-enhancement injections, drew international attention and led reporters from the United Kingdom to flock to Philadelphia.
NEWS
May 24, 2012 | BY Judith Lynne Hanna
Benefits? Yes, a 15-year study of exotic-dance clubs nationwide (published by the University of Texas Press) challenges what is said in the Daily News article "Dirty Dancing: Strippers bring prostitution, violence, cops say. " I began my research with many common misconceptions. In strip clubs I discovered a form of dance, art and theater that communicates within its own aesthetic. Fantasy is the touchstone. I interviewed more than 1,000 dancers, managers, owners, bartenders, disc jockeys, house mothers and house dads, and patrons in 141 clubs.
NEWS
May 18, 2012 | By Allison Steele, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
One by one, the five women waiting for buttock-enhancement injections went into the room with Padge Victoria Windslowe, the so-called "Black Madam" charged with performing the illegal procedures as an underground business. After five to 10 minutes, each woman returned with cotton balls Krazy-Glued to the injection site on her instantly larger rear end. Windslowe left as soon as she was finished, according to one former client, but not before leaving instructions for the women.
NEWS
May 17, 2012 | By Stephanie Farr, Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday's preliminary hearing for the Black Madam featured testimony about "butt pumping parties" and a woman who goes by the name of "Back Shots. " But perhaps the most bizarre moment came when Black Madam's attorney argued that one reason his client isn't a flight risk is that she always wears 4-inch heels. Judge Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde didn't buy the argument. She held the case for trial and refused to reduce the $750,000 bail for Black Madam, a transgender gothic hip-hop artist whose real name is Padge Victoria Windslowe.
SPORTS
January 11, 2012 | BY KERITH GABRIEL, gabrielk@phillynews.com
DETROIT cornerback Aaron Berry found a new way to all but eliminate any chance of growing a personal fan base in the Motor City. By dissing its socio-economic status. Following the Lions' wild-card loss to New Orleans, Berry took to Twitter to vent his frustration - but directed it at the Lions' renewed and faithful supporters by posting: "Y'all can go back to being Broke & Miserable . . . now back to regular scheduled programming . . . " Berry deleted the post and a subsequent apology but not before it made the rounds and fired up half of Detroit.
NEWS
April 8, 2011
HAMILTON, Ohio - An exotic dancer accused of killing a customer by running him over in her SUV outside his home and dragging him for a mile was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison. Kristina Hensley, 35, of Higginsport, pleaded guilty in February to involuntary manslaughter in the death last August of Jae Cho. The judge said Hensley didn't just hit Cho, 31, but dragged him to a "horrible death," the Hamilton JournalNews reported. Hensley told police Cho touched her inappropriately after she was called to perform a private show at his home in Monroe, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati.
NEWS
August 5, 2010
A Quakertown woman accused of working as a stripper while collecting workers' compensation benefits faces arraignment Friday in Bucks County. Christina Gamble, 43, waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday and a trial was tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9. Gamble reported hurting her back while waitressing at the Red Robin restaurant in Quakertown in 2007. She collected nearly $23,000 in disability benefits and more than $4,000 in medical expenses, according to the state, "but she was observed working as an exotic dancer during the time she was supposedly injured and collecting workers' compensation payments" at a bar in Easton, according to authorities.
NEWS
November 4, 2008 | By Craig R. McCoy INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo had a private detective snoop into Ed Rendell, a long string of political enemies, his own son, an ex-girlfriend, a former wife - and even two topless dancers, the private eye said yesterday. The detective, Frank D. Wallace, told jurors in Fumo's trial on federal corruption: "The majority of work I did was political and personal. " Wallace said this was so even though Fumo was paying him - with public money - as much as $45,000 a year under a contract that called for legislative investigations.
NEWS
October 13, 2006 | By Sam Wood INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
He was a Jersey steelworker with a million dollars from a legal settlement. She was an exotic dancer with at least four fiances - one of whom, police said, she wanted dead. Their yearlong engagement ended poorly. He wound up broke, the prime suspect in the murder of a man in the Alaskan wilderness. She left him in New Orleans for an Army doctor, whom she later married. Last week, a decade after the breakup, John T. Carlin III and Mechele Hughes were back together. Both were charged in the 1994 murder of Kent J. Leppink, who owned a fishing business in Anchorage and was deeply in love with Hughes.