A Florida lady faces years in jail after she flew to the Bay Space and met a girl in a resort the place she carried out an unlawful, lethal silicone injection into the lady’s buttocks for cash.
Vivian Alexandra Gomez, 50, was convicted by a jury of felony involuntary manslaughter and working towards medication and not using a legitimate license, ensuing within the demise of one other, San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Steve Wagstaffe introduced on Tuesday.
Gomez’s lawyer didn’t reply to a request for remark.
In April 2023, Gomez flew to San Francisco Worldwide Airport to satisfy Christina Ashten Gourkani, a San Jose resident and social media mannequin identified for resembling Kim Kardashian.
Gourkani contacted Gomez, who ran an unlicensed cosmotology enterprise out of Florida, about silicone injections to extend the dimensions of her buttocks, Wagstaffe stated.
Gomez met Gourkani and her fiance at a Marriott resort in Burlingame, a number of miles south of the airport, for the process.
Gourkani received at the least two injections of what was imagined to be gluteal silicone however proper after the injections, she started to enter misery, together with convulsions.
She died the following day of respiratory failure and a pulmonary embolism. Gomez then flew again to Florida, the place she was ultimately arrested and returned to California.
The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration in 2021 warned towards utilizing silicone injections to enlarge or form components of the physique, saying the injections could cause long-term ache, embolisms, disfigurement, stroke and demise.
Final October, a girl was convicted in Riverside County of homicide for a deadly silicone injection after she’d beforehand been convicted of manslaughter for the observe.
