A California lady — dubbed “the butt woman” — was discovered responsible Thursday of murdering “Married … with Kids” actress Cindyana Santangelo throughout a botched silicone injection session.
Libby Adame, 55, was convicted of second-degree homicide and training medication with out a license in reference to the 59-year-old actress’s March 24 demise, the LA Instances reported.
Santangelo — a mom of two — died after she was rushed from her Malibu house to a Ventura County hospital, the place officers dominated an embolism from a silicone injection induced her demise, prosecutors stated.
Protection lawyer J. Michael Flanagan instructed jurors that Adame was solely at Santangelo’s house as a guide on behalf of docs who can legally carry out buttocks injections in Tijuana, Mexico.
He argued that his shopper didn’t have time to carry out the process on Santangelo and blasted investigators for pinning the lady’s demise on her with out a full investigation.
On the time of the “ER” actress’s demise, Adame was on probation from an involuntary manslaughter case over the deadly 2019 buttocks injections that killed 26-year-old Karissa Rajpaul in Sherman Oaks, in response to the LA Instances.
She and her daughter and confederate, Alicia Galaz, had been acquitted of the extra critical cost of homicide. Adame acquired a four-year, four-month state jail sentence in April 2024, however was launched lower than a 12 months later attributable to time served in custody and digital monitoring.
Flanagan acknowledged that his shopper — generally known as “the butt woman” or “La Tia” — carried out a process on Rajpaul, however was conscious she may not do “butt work” in California.
Flanagan stated they are going to be submitting an attraction on her second-degree homicide conviction.
Adame has been in custody since her Might 12 arrest by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division. Her sentencing listening to is scheduled for Nov. 5.
Below California legislation, second-degree homicide carries a minimal sentence of 15 years, and training medication with out a license can lead to as much as three years in jail.
Adame was additionally discovered responsible of a particular enhancement for inflicting nice bodily harm, which provides an extra three to 6 years to her sentence.
The actress’s husband, Frank Santangelo — who can also be suing Adame for wrongful demise within the process — claimed his spouse was “killed within the prime of her life in her own residence…”
“Tragically, her demise not solely may have, however ought to have been prevented,” he wrote in a civil grievance obtained by the LA Instances.
Following Thursday’s verdict, her husband instructed ABC 7 that he feels justice has been served.
The mom of two stepped into the leisure business in 1989 after being solid in Younger MC’s music video for “Bust a Transfer.”
She later dabbled in TV work, happening to safe the position of Sierra Madre on “Married…With Kids,” earlier than showing on “CSI: Miami” and “ER.”
Santangelo made her movie debut in 1990 when she was solid in “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” and labored alongside Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett within the 2003 comedy “Hollywood Murder.”
