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
Joan London (Australian author) were published together as "The New Dark Age". She has published three novels, "Gilgamesh", "The Good Parents" and "The Golden Age". She was awarded the Patrick White Award in 2015. She is married to Geoffrey London, formerly the Victorian, and Western Australian, Government Architect. Joan London (Australian author) Joan Elizabeth London (born 24 July 1948) is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels. She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband Geoffrey. London