A transgender singer known as the 'Black Madam' accused of injecting a fatal dose of silicone into a
dancer's buttocks before sealing the wounds with super glue, has broken her
silence. Daily Mail UK reports
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Windslowe said she felt remorse over the death of 20-year-old Claudia Seye Aderotimi, but shouldn't
be charged with murder because she only wanted to help people at her 'pumping parties'.
'The Philadelphia
District Attorney's Office would like to promote [the] thought that it was
greed,
recklessness and malice that fueled my conduct,' the 42-year-old
wrote in a letter sent to Philadelphia's Daily News. 'However, I swear that my aim was noble in nature. I simply really just
loved the feeling of ... helping others feel more beautiful, wonderful and
magical about themselves - just as someone once helped me.'
Windslowe, from West Philadelphia, also revealed that she
rejected a plea deal to serve 15 to 30 years in prison for third-degree murder.
The maximum sentence for that crime is 20 to 40 years. She instead offered to
plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and serve the maximum sentence of 2.5
to five years.
In a letter to D.A. Seth
Williams obtained by Daily News, the hip-hop artist wrote that pleading
guilty would allow her to honor Aderotimi's
memory and avoid a trial. 'Please let us
amicably put this case to rest without any more negative press and media
attention on our city ... which a trial like this would bring,' Windslowe,
who was born male, wrote.
According to the District Attorney's Office, Windslowe held
a 'pumping party' in a hotel room
near Philadelphia International Airport
in February 2011, during which she injected silicone into Aderotimi's buttocks for free.
Windslowe, who does not have an injecting license, then
allegedly closed the wounds with glue and cotton balls. When Aderotimi, a
British citizen, complained of chest pains, Windslowe allegedly told her to
drink more fluids and to call an ambulance if needed, before leaving the party.
Aderotimi, an exotic dancer, died a short time later of a
pulmonary embolism which, law-enforcement officials say, was caused by
Windslowe's silicone.
The musician, whose videos and interviews can be viewed on
YouTube, was charged with third-degree murder in July 2012 after a lengthy
investigation involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
By that time she was already in custody, having been charged
with aggravated assault for a silicone butt injection that gravely injured a
23-year-old woman in February 2012.
The woman was allegedly coughing up blood and was also
treated for a blocked artery in her lung at Temple University Hospital.
Police believed Windslowe had performed at least 14 cosmetic
surgeries, moving locations and using different names to avoid detection.
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