Cynthia Payne Leland. Payne made appearances as an after-dinner speaker and launched a range of "adult" services and products in 2006. Payne died on 15 November 2015, aged 82. Her family celebrated her life a month later with a colourful humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. Cynthia Payne Cynthia Payne (24 December 193215 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was acquitted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London. Payne first came to national attention in 1978 when police raided
Payne Brothers and Pedro. With his brother Harry, Fred appeared regularly at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. In 1877, while engaged in the pantomime at the Alexandra Palace, he became what the newspaper "The Era" called mentally "affected", and he never fully recovered from this affliction. He died at 3 Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, London, on 27 February 1880, aged only 39. Payne Brothers Harry Payne (25 November 1833 – 27 September 1895) and Frederick Payne (January 1841 – 27 February 1880) were members of a popular Victorian era of British pantomime entertainers. They were billed as The Payne Brothers. Fred Payne became