My spouse bought a butt-lift injection and died: ‘Most harmful process’

She was the “Latina Marilyn Monroe,” and he or she died chasing magnificence within the pink-walled sanctuary of her $4 million Malibu mansion.

Cindyana Santangelo, 58, bled out on her therapeutic massage desk after an unlicensed “butt woman” pumped lethal silicone into her physique on March 24, 2025 — although the identical lady had already killed somebody whereas doing the very same process.

“It broke my coronary heart,” her husband Frank Santangelo instructed The California Submit solely from the sprawling dwelling the place his spouse of 24 years drew her final breath.

The “Married… With Kids” actress and mom of two had been getting bioidentical hormone remedies that left her bottom “lumpy” and “uneven.” She was enthusiastic about smoothing issues out with a $3,500 butt-lift injection.

“She wished each a part of her to be lovely,” Santangelo mentioned.

Dubbed the “Latina Marilyn Monroe” due to a job she had in a Jane’s Dependancy music video for the track “Cease,” Santangelo discovered solace in her upstairs “magnificence room.” The room featured a pink therapeutic massage desk, a wall of mirrors, and mementos of Marilyn Monroe.

Round 3:30 p.m., closely tattooed Libby Adame rolled as much as the mansion after being referred by Cindyana’s Botox beautician. The actress was so intrigued by Adame’s ink that she snapped images of tattoos on her aspect and butt.

“My spouse, she’s actually intrigued about tattoos. So my spouse took footage of all this lady’s tattoos on her aspect and her butt,” Santangelo mentioned.

At 4 p.m. whereas within the “magnificence room,” Adame, often known as the “Butt Girl,” plunged the needle into Cindyana’s buttocks.

Minutes later, Adame known as downstairs asking for watermelon juice.

When Santangelo rushed up, he discovered his spouse struggling to breathe, blood dripping from her bottom.

“Once I bought as much as the room, I observed that there was one thing incorrect along with her. She was struggling to breathe, my spouse’s buttocks, there was blood dripping out of it so there was one thing that wasn’t proper,” recalled Santangelo.

He instantly known as 911. Adame instructed him she had one thing that may assist her within the automotive, however that was a lie. She grabbed Cindyana’s cellphone and fled the scene, in keeping with Santangelo.

Cindyana instructed her husband that she had by no means felt a lot ache in her chest and thought she “was having a coronary heart assault,” he instructed The Submit.

When paramedics arrived they tried frantically to avoid wasting her life as she was struggling to breathe, her husband mentioned.

“They tried to sit down her up, they laid her down, lastly they put her on the stretcher they usually had been giving her oxygen,” Santangelo mentioned.

She was rushed to the hospital the place she was pronounced useless shortly after 6 p.m. Officers dominated that an embolism from a silicone injection induced her loss of life.

“Once I noticed her she had already handed. They let my son and me go see her and I might see the imprint of the paddles on her coronary heart — that tore me to shreds,” Santangelo mentioned on the verge of tears.

The race was on to seek out “the butt-lady.” Police had been capable of retrieve the images of Adame’s tattoos from iCloud that had been taken on the stolen cellphone.

After a two-month investigation, Adame was arrested and charged with Cindyana’s homicide. 

The trial compelled Santangelo and Cindyana’s finest buddy Monique Alexander to relive the horror of that fateful afternoon.

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“I imply, she was simply so vigorous and vitality, and it’s simply, it’s actually unusual to not have her right here,” Alexander mentioned.

It was additionally revealed in the course of the trial that Adame had killed somebody earlier than whereas conducting the identical process.  

She was on probation, when she visited the Santangelo dwelling, from an involuntary manslaughter case over the deadly 2019 buttocks injections that killed 26-year-old Karissa Rajpaul in Sherman Oaks, California.

Adame was convicted in October 2025 of second-degree homicide and practising medication with no license in reference to the actress’s loss of life. She was sentenced to 14 years to life in jail.

Santangelo’s lawyer David Olan mentioned there’s a civil swimsuit in opposition to Adame within the works.

Santangelo says there’s no sentence that may ease the ache of dropping his spouse, however warns everybody ought to test the license of anybody conducting harmful beauty procedures.

“It’s best to by no means have anyone who’s not a medical practitioner to provide you any type of shot within the buttocks. It’s essentially the most harmful magnificence process there’s.”