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,
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