Exotic Dancer

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.

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.

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.

They met one night two years ago when she was a dancer at the Philadelphia gentlemen's club Delilah's; he was a businessman from Gladwyne. Before long, slender Ngoc Tran Vo and Harry Pollack were meeting regularly at the Sofitel, the posh hotel on 17th Street just off Rittenhouse Square. Things went sour when Vo, 26, of the Northeast, began trying to extort money from Pollack with sex tapes she had made of them without his knowledge. He called the cops. She was arrested in August and charged with attempting to commit extortion, invasion of privacy for viewing or photographing a person without consent, theft and possession of an instrument of crime.

The brothers had a rough way of restraining the woman they contend became emotional on May 15. They killed her, the prosecutor said. Assistant District Attorney Judith Frankel Rubino said David T. Pollard, 22, of Berks Street near 53rd, and Johnnie Pollard Jr. 26, of Sansom Street near 56th, beat and strangled Heather Victoria Reyes, 23, an exotic dancer, hid her body in a closet for several hours while they went drinking and then dragged it...

Florence Leeper, an exotic dancer and stripper from the 1930s and '40s, known as Florence Nubia, and a daredevil motorcyle rider, died Monday. She was 76 and lived in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. Leeper was an "Oriental" dancer in an exhibit called "The Streets of Morocco" at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair, where she met and married a barker named Frank "Jack" Leeper. She was also known as "The Charisma Kid of the '30s. " Leeper was also a stunt motorcycle rider in a "Motor Drome" exhibit at the Fair.

Arrest warrants were issued yesterday for two Philadelphia police officers accused of raping a 25-year-old exotic dancer while they were on duty in their patrol car last month. Officer James Fallon Jr., a six-year police veteran, is to turn himself in Tuesday morning to Internal Affairs, his lawyer, Fortunato Perri Jr., said. The other officer, Timothy Carre, who has been on the force for seven years, said last night he also had made arrangements to surrender. "I can't get into it," he said, citing the advice of his attorney.

Susan Doyle has put down her picket sign and slipped back into her high heels. The exotic dancer went back to work yesterday at a Bucks County "gentlemen's club," two weeks after she was fired for trying to organize the first dancers' union on the East Coast. "I intend on doing my job to the best of my ability," said the 31-year-old single mother. For six years, Doyle has entertained the steelworkers, carpenters, electricians and the other blue-collar workers who frequent Bensalem's Oakford Inn. Seeking job security, cleaner dressing rooms, and better treatment from managers, Doyle and 27 other dancers met this summer and signed a union petition.

Over the objections of prosecutors in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, John A. Denofa, who is charged with the March 29 murder of an exotic dancer was released yesterday from the Burlington County Jail on $500,000 bail. Denofa's lawyer, John L. Call Jr., would not allow him to make any comment and said Denofa's first order of business would be "to go home and get a good meal. " Earlier, Denofa appeared in court in handcuffs at a brief hearing to assure Superior Court Judge Marvin E. Schlosser that he would comply with the bail terms.

At home and everywhere she worked - in Bucks County, Philadelphia and New Jersey - sexually explicit phone calls followed. That's why Susan Doyle was glad yesterday when Philadelphia police showed up to arrest the man she says has called and stalked her for three years. It happened moments after he was ordered to stand trial on similar charges in Bucks County. "I'm grateful," said Doyle. "At least, I know the legal system is working. " It appears the legal system has been working for some time in the case of Jeffrey B. Friedman, a Bensalem native who has pleaded guilty to harassing people over the phone six different times since 1982.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They met one night two years ago when she was a dancer at the Philadelphia gentlemen's club Delilah's; he was a businessman from Gladwyne. Before long, slender Ngoc Tran Vo and Harry Pollack were meeting regularly at the Sofitel, the posh hotel on 17th Street just off Rittenhouse Square. Things went sour when Vo, 26, of the Northeast, began trying to extort money from Pollack with sex tapes she had made of them without his knowledge. He called the cops. She was arrested in August and charged with attempting to commit extortion, invasion of privacy for viewing or photographing a person without consent, theft and possession of an instrument of crime.

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.

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.

Russia beat the two-time defending champion United States, 75-68, in the semifinals of the women's world basketball championships last night in Sao Paulo, Brazil, snapping the Americans' 26-game winning streak in the event. Russia took advantage of poor shooting and sloppy ballhandling by the U.S. team to gain a 58-38 lead after three quarters. The Americans closed to 73-68 with 45 seconds remaining. But after two missed free throws by Oxana Rakhmatulina with 30 seconds to go, the U.S. team took up almost all of the 24-second clock and Candace Parker missed a layup with 12 seconds left.