Cynthia Payne 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 her home and found a sex party was in progress. Men paid with luncheon vouchers to dress up in lingerie and be spanked by young women. Police found 53 men at her residence, in varying levels of undress, which included "a peer of the realm,
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