



She died four days after her last encounter with Lee of a silicone pulmonary embolism. Phillips, who had undergone the procedure before, paid between $300-500 per session. In 2015, 44-year-old Nitica Deonte Lee performed an illegal butt injection on 22-year old exotic dancer Daysha Phillips in a Dallas, Texas hotel room. His successful backdoor business generated $1.6 million in revenue from 3,000 sessions performed over a 7-year period. Taylor met clients in hotel rooms throughout the East Coast, using gallons of silicon, super glue and plastic wrap to perform DIY butt augmentation procedures. Vinnie Taylor, a North Carolina man accused of performing butt injections using industrial-grade silicone, was recently sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after one of his clients died of “acute and chronic respiratory failure due to a foreign substance in her body.” Despite the media attention garnered in recent years by several horrifying cases of amputation, disfigurement, and death, the illegal butt injection business continues to thrive in many American cities.
