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
Cynthia Sakai the gift, Cynthia embarked on her first trip to Italy to find and meet the local artisan that hand-crafted the bracelet, finally finding the boutique nestled on the Ponte Vecchio. That one meeting set into motion what would soon become Vita Fede. As Cynthia immersed herself in Italian culture, the first words she learned were “vita” – or life – and “fede,” which means faith. It was Cynthia’s personal faith in life that gave her the inspiration to launch the Vita Fede brand in 2009. In 2014, Cynthia was inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). In