Friend describes deadly beauty surgery at Pa. inn

Published October 10, 2012 4:00am ET



PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia woman known as “the Black Madam” performed deadly cosmetic surgery on a London dancer in an airport hotel room, then used glue to close the wounds and fled when the client went into respiratory distress, witnesses testified Wednesday.

A judge upheld a third-degree murder charge against Padge Gordon after the woman’s friend testified about getting silicone injections to enlarge their buttocks in February 2011.

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