A Riverside County woman convicted of second-degree murder for injecting silicone oil into a woman’s buttocks in Malibu, just over a year after being found guilty of a lesser charge stemming from another woman’s death under similar circumstances, was sentenced in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov. 5, to 15 years to life in prison.

Jurors, on Oct. 9, found Libby Adame, 55, guilty of the murder , along with a count of practicing medicine without certification. The charges stemmed from the March 24 death of Cindyana Santangelo, 59, of Malibu.

Adame and her daughter, Alicia Galaz, were found guilty in March 2024 of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the Oct. 15, 2019, death of Karissa Rajpaul, 26, following buttocks injections administered at a Sherman Oaks home. Adame was also convicted l

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