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
Ronald Payne Ronald Payne Ronald Payne, a.k.a. Ronnie Payne, (1926-2013) was a British journalist and espionage author. Ronald Payne was born on 6 February 1926 in Ripon, Yorkshire, England. His father was a Primitive Methodist minister. Payne was educated at the Bedford School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Marines. He subsequently attended Jesus College, Oxford. Payne began his career as a journalist at the "Reading Mercury". He subsequently wrote for the "London Evening Standard". In 1953, he joined the "Daily Telegraph", first as a reporter and later as a foreign correspondent in Paris. He wrote about French Algeria