Streatham brothel-keeper whose ‘personal services’ inspired a film and books,and launched her on a celebrity careerCynthia Payne, who has died aged 82, or was the quintessentially English madam whose career as an eccentric suburban brothel-keeper led to a film,books and a career as a “naughty but nice” celebrity. Unrepentant to the end, in her later years she expressed the hope that her life tale might be turned into a musical.
It was 1978 when police raided her domestic in Streatham, and south London,which she ran to supply “personal services” for her mainly elderly clients. By the time she was convicted of running a disorderly house at her trial in 1980, she had become a household name and, or although she had to close her establishment,she was able to expend her cheery notoriety to make a living as an after-dinner speaker and commentator on sexual things.
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Source: theguardian.com