{"id":380482,"date":"2026-10-23T05:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380482\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:06:31","slug":"half-naked-woman-dumped-outside-nyc-hospital-was-killed-by-botched-butt-lift-from-back-alley-cosmetologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380482\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-naked woman dumped outside NYC hospital was killed by botched butt lift from back-alley cosmetologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

They tossed her booty in jail.<\/p>\n

A fake cosmetologist was busted for allegedly killing a Connecticut woman<\/a> with botched butt injections \u2014 then dumping her at a hospital unconscious and naked from the waist down, law enforcement sources\u00a0 said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Alicia Leslie, 47, of Mount Vernon allegedly\u00a0performed the back-alley silicone injections that\u00a0caused Maxine Messam, 53, of Bridgeport to go into fatal cardiac arrest in February 2022, according to police.<\/p>\n

Leslie was charged Friday with criminally negligent homicide after investigators found a text message exchange between Leslie and Messam planning to meet up in Yonkers to do the bootleg beauty procedure <\/a>on Feb. 15, 2022, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

\"MaxineMaxine Messam, 53, of Bridgeport, Conn., is seen in an undated photo after she died at Jacobi Hospital when she was dropped off semi-naked with needle marks, following a suspected cosmetic injection procedure gone awry. maxine.messam<\/p>\n

After the dodgy derriere injections went south, Leslie and another woman allegedly dropped Messam off at Jacobi Medical Center pantsless with multiple injection\u00a0marks on her buttocks \u2014 then left in a van, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Leslie and the other woman, who has not been charged,\u00a0had allegedly claimed they found Messam in Woodlawn Cemetery in distress, cops said at the time.<\/p>\n

Leslie was arraigned last Friday by Judge Pamela Goldsmith and granted supervised release.<\/p>\n

Her rap sheet includes petit larceny in Midtown in 2000, along with two petit larceny charges in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She is due back in court Nov.\u00a0 4.<\/p>\n

\"MaxineMaxine Messam was dumped at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n

At least a dozen people have died in recent years from illicit silicone injections, many of them butt injections \u2014 with federal agencies reporting a rise in fake practitioners in New York, Florida, and Texas California.<\/p>\n

In 2017, an\u00a0unlicensed cosmetologist took a plea deal for killing a Queens mom with an illegal butt-enhancement injection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tamira Mobley, 32, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault and the unauthorized practice of a profession in exchange for \u00ad\u00ad1\u00b9\/\u2083 to four years in prison.<\/p>\n

Lisa Fernandez, 47, of\u00a0 Houston was also charged in 2021 with manslaughter for performing an unlicensed silicone butt injection that killed 38-year-old Marja McClendon of St. Louis, Missouri,, officials said.<\/p>\n

Last year, a California woman dubbed \u201cthe butt lady\u201d was found guilty of murdering \u201cMarried \u2026 with Children\u201d actress Cindyana Santangelo<\/a> during a botched injection session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They tossed her booty in jail. A fake cosmetologist was busted for allegedly killing a Connecticut woman with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,303,1015,57,9,56,63,65,64,32365,58],"class_list":["post-380482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrest","tag-crime","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-plastic-surgery","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}